Ah, those wonderful people obsessed with a corner of the natural world or food system! I like to believe that Thoreau would have been one of them if he was forced to live in this complicated time. (I can see him as a early market shopper, complete with knotty bags and crates to return to farmers, animatedly discussing timber production with the bee guy over there in the corner.)
In any case, we need to celebrate every success that comes from our brethren (such as those in the part of the environmental movement that is as appropriately-scaled as our piece of the food system) as a victory for the alternative food system. A good example found now are the folks from the “Lost Ladybug Project” which search and categorize ladybug populations. Good news: the long-thought extinct Coccinella novemnotata which is the state insect of New York was found last summer during an event the organization held.
This beauty was found on Saturday July 30, 2011 on a sunflower at the Quail Hill Organic Farm in Amagansett, Suffolk County by Peter Priolo.

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