I really need you all to come on over to may main website at the Farm at Nanticoke Creek. I just can juggle all these sites anymore and everything is already over there anyway…
What are you waiting for?!??!?!? The new stuff is at:
See you there!
This weekend Todd and I were talking about how we so wish that there was a way we make a living with our little farm. Selling eggs, raising Heritage Breeds for preservation, fostering the eat and buy local movement, it should be worth something right?
It is…
The payoff comes in the message. It is a message of hope that yes, everyone can bridge the disconnect we have with our food, our communities and our world as a whole. I try not preach at my readers, I really do. And I try to keep my personal views somewhat contained. You don’t find talk of religion and politics here, they are important of course. But we are here to share our experiences with the hope that others might find them interesting enough to try for themselves. I am going to break with tradition a bit and share something with you today. I know my readers know that I fully support buying from local food producers. And that includes meat. We eat meat if I “know” the meat. That means that I personally have met the farmer, visited the farm and met the animals in their care. I still struggle at times with it because animals and I have a thing…I just tend to “get them” in way others don’t. Luckily for me I have met others like me in my life and I am personable enough in my social life that I can fend off that “crazy animal lady” stereotype.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I have been struggling lately with myself. I keep wondering “why?” Even my parents think my views are silly. Can you imagine how hard it is to be the person I am and have your own family disrespect it SO much that it seems every conversation is an intentional slap to my face? They won’t even eat the eggs we produce. Go figure…Then this morning I pop onto facebook (yes, I know…me on facebook, isn’t that funny?!?!?) and a local group, The Binghamton Animal Alliance is showing a screening of “Peaceable Kingdom, The Journey Home”. This is a film I have been following due to its subject matter…ethics in farming.
I am going to embed the video here for you. It isn’t a PETA propaganda laced film, it is a beautifully produced documentary of the reality of where our meat comes from. It isn’t meant to shock or scare you, but rather give you a glimpse inside a world we rarely see. It is the glimpse inside that world that makes my believe what I do and why we are trying to live our lives here at the farm in the way we do. The movie is about an hour long, I really hope that you’ll stop to watch at least some of it, and it has Spanish subtitles. I welcome your feedback as well.
