Hello to my Wacco friends...
Can I talk politics today? Is that OK with you?
Even if you think that voting is a waste of your time, please get out there and vote Yes on Proposition 37, which is about the right to know what’s in our food. I just read a whole piece about obesity and kids and junk food and corporate control of our food. It’s so grim - this poisoning of our food without our consent.
In some ways this entire election is about the purchase and ownership of our lives by some kind of Darth Vader entity somewhere. I read that Monsanto is spending one million dollars every day to defeat 37. What can one possibly say to express the magnitude of that much money being spent to deprive us of our right to know what we are eating! Jesus!
We are so lucky to have a year round, happily locally grown farmers market within 5 minutes from where we live. We don’t have to eat junk food but so many people do. We can be of some service with our vote.
In the city of Sebastopol there is, of course, John Eder and Robert Jacobs - our ray of hope for something other than a Chase Bank and CVS pharmacy at the gateway to our town.
One of my kids went to college in Indiana. There are dozens of CVS pharmacies all over the state. The one here is just exactly like all the CVS’s in Indiana. Lots of coke and pepsi and snail killer. Ugh. Worth getting out to vote to make a choice for something else.
Meanwhile I am supposed to be telling you about food:
- Dave & Jim, the chestnut guys, are coming this Sunday! It’s really fall when the chestnut guys come.
-Peppers are fantastic.
-And I am starting to love green food again. I always kind of shun kale and chard in the summer but there’s something compelling about these greens in winter when it’s a little cold.
See you on Sunday. Town Plaza in Sebastopol - 10:00 to 1:30. For more information call Paula at 522-9305.
Paula
Farm Market Manager