Friday, November 07, 2008
Why Do You Do What You Do, Farmer D?
Why Do You Do What Yo Do, Farmer D? from Pattie Baker on Vimeo.
And so I got to wondering: What is at the heart of the motivation for why everyday people take small and extraordinary steps to live more sustainably? Even when it is difficult? Especially when it is difficult?
I decided I would ask them, in one simple little question. Why do you do what you do?
Tune in every Friday and find out in this new FoodShed Planet series. And perhaps, recognize a bit of yourself in the motivations of the wide range of people you'll meet here. Many of them have been featured in FoodShed Planet posts already. And many of them I have yet to discover.
This week, Farmer D is sitting in my garden next to a pile of his biodynamic organic compost which he had just delivered to nourish my garden through the winter ahead. Here is my Sustainable Dunwoody post about his visit. (Stay tuned for big, breaking Farmer D news in the next week or so!)
Also, I invite you to tune in each Friday to my odd little 15-minute radio show, Brown Bag Lunch with FoodShed Planet, by calling 347.308.8118 at 1 PM Eastern every Friday, or clicking on the link in the right hand sidebar of this blog (you can listen to archived episodes at any time).
I'm way outside my comfort zone here, folks. And having a grand ole' time of it. :)
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4 comments:
Great food for thought here Pattie. I loved hearing Farmer D and enjoyed brown bag lunch even more.
I am looking forward to hearing about the grains you have bought.
We don't use some of the corn products you mentioned, like corn grits so I would like to learn more.
The organic farming course sounds great.
"so much knowledge to transfer to a younger generation", now that is a pretty good reason to work even harder and be even more enthusiastic to do what we do.
You have made me realize that we are not doing all this research just for ourselves but so that we can pass on the knowledge to each other. And blogging is a great way
of writing about what we learn.
Maggie; I'm actually learning about the grains as I go since grits, in particular, is not a staple of my northern upbringing. I've been in the South for 19 years now, and I still have much, much, much to learn.
And yes, the transfer of knowledge thing is huge and folks need to know how important a role they play in it!
THANK YOU for all you do to help pass your knowledge on!
Pattie, this is beautiful...just look where you are now....amazing. I so hope we can get together one day....I will make you an EXCELLENT coffee and we will spend days chatting and working in a garden....mine or yours....you choose. I have so much to say about what I learned on my trip...stay tuned for that too. It is good now to have time to blog-browse again and write comments and watch the videos of all the people I didn't meet this time. As Maggie says, blogging teaches us so much more than just the facts.
Kate: I am soooo curious to hear your reflections on all you experienced on your trip! Did anything surprise you? Did any of your opinions about certain places change? Did some of the "weird" things you read about life in the United States make more sense to you when you saw it first-hand, or did it just shock you even more?
You came at an interesting time, at the precipice of change. Did you feel it in the air?
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