Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Oct 12 2006
And here's the poop
Santa Cruz County and Monterey County, both increasingly encroached on by suburban blight, still sport an impressive agricultural landscape, including an amazing number of organic farms. Heated discussions involving fertilizer, irrigation techniques and disease-resistant plants liven the local political landscape right alongside school board budgets and pothole remediation.
Apples, herbs, brussels sprouts, artichokes, strawberries and other fresh produce are our local stars. There are fewer large-scale beef and dairy ranches here. Most of those are further inland. But when that dust-devil topic of e-coli took a mad twirl through here recently it managed to plop a lot of cow dung.
I Heart Farms has more on how an especially nasty strain of e-coli might actually have been nicely cultivated by the very careful cattle ranching practices we've come to think of as safer, cleaner and more productive than the old ways.
posted at: 07:20 | category: /Food | link to this entry
Santa Cruz County and Monterey County, both increasingly encroached on by suburban blight, still sport an impressive agricultural landscape, including an amazing number of organic farms. Heated discussions involving fertilizer, irrigation techniques and disease-resistant plants liven the local political landscape right alongside school board budgets and pothole remediation.
Apples, herbs, brussels sprouts, artichokes, strawberries and other fresh produce are our local stars. There are fewer large-scale beef and dairy ranches here. Most of those are further inland. But when that dust-devil topic of e-coli took a mad twirl through here recently it managed to plop a lot of cow dung.
I Heart Farms has more on how an especially nasty strain of e-coli might actually have been nicely cultivated by the very careful cattle ranching practices we've come to think of as safer, cleaner and more productive than the old ways.
posted at: 07:20 | category: /Food | link to this entry
