Our Mission

Farm to Table informs and strengthens the sustainable and local foods community by providing a collaborative journalistic forum for the presentation of a unified voice for small farmers, restaurateurs, consumers, and everyone in between, with an emphasis on the importance of grassroots initiative as a means to bring about large-scale change in the American food industry.

Principles

Alongside sharing the stories and trends developing in the farm to table movement, the blog seeks to engage in the daily stories, developments and, in particular, the people at the front lines of this increasingly important movement.

These are:

1. The farmers going “beyond organic” to bring us fresh and seasonal produce without employing the use of harmful pesticides and fertilizers.
2. The ranchers raising their cattle, lamb and pig naturally on pasture (as G-d or Buddha intended) as opposed to confining them to factory pens.
3. The artisan cheese and bread makers resurrecting traditional methods and experimenting with new ones.
4. The chefs incorporating market-based and seasonal foods into their menus
5. The shopkeepers, entrepreneurs and purveyors bridging the gap between customers and producers.
6. The journalists, essayists, bloggers and documentarians engaged in chronicling the farm to table movement in all its diversity.
7. And finally, the average person, for too long ignored, fed up with America’s mainstream culinary culture of fast, thoughtless food, eating out and commodified products clogging up their bodies, minds and souls.

This blog seeks to advance the discussion on how the world of food relates to the average American eater. Many of us were raised in a generation where food was fuel, food was easy, food was cheap. And that was seen as the Heights of Progress.

We stand in opposition to this philosophy. To paraphrase a hero of mine, William F. Buckley, “We stand athwart this philosophy, yelling stop!”