Report from the Trenches
In this case the furrows. We've just returned from Eastern Montana where a courageous and enlightened group of farmers have completed a successful harvest of organic barley, oat, lentils and the first significant crop of farro (aka emmer) grown in the U.S. Timeless Foods is the farmer owned packing and marketing arm of dozens of family farmers committed to holding the line against genetically modified, high chemical input, factory farming. Through Timeless we were able to visit several farms and can report that the concern exhibited by these farmers over the state of modern agriculture is nothing short of inspirational. Besides trying to save small farms and their communities, they are concerned with protecting the world's food supply from the imminent danger of crop failure due to corporate driven monoculture and over dependence on pesticides and herbicides. Their sense of the bigger picture is something we all need to champion. Pacific Gourmet will be doing more to feature their crops as a way of promoting what's right in agriculture and what has to work for our collective future.