Down on phony farms, up for the real thing.
Disturbing news in the New York Times: a middle-class family raising chickens in Manhattan.
Disturbing news in the Wall Street Journal: developing suburban housing tracts as pseudo-farms.
Whatever happened to real farms? Couple of good examples.
First, one of Washington's foremost producers of goat cheese, Quillisascut Farms is offering farm-stays to beginning chefs. What a great way for to start out: seeing the food grow, getting close to the animals.
Owners Rick and Lorna Lea Mysterly explain it all on their website.
And our friends at Growing Goodness have just released the DVD of Farmboy, a documentary about American farms based on the book by John Babcock.
Meantime, Cornichon's been nominated (not by me, not by anyone I know) for "Best Food Blog" in the Blogger's Choice Awards. Click on the image below & vote!
