Doing the chores

The Wee ‘Un checks the Scots Greys chicks have enough
feed and water as part of our evening chores.

Getting wise to ‘organic’ farming

I’ve long had my suspicions about how the organic ideal has become little more than a marketing slogan for big business, and I’m not the only one.

In the United States, Business Week has just published an article, The Organic Myth, on how “pastoral ideals are getting trampled as organic food goes mass market“.

The article examines the difference between the perception that consumers have of organic food - of small, family farms growing chemical-free produce and extensively rearing livestock for local markets - with the reality of global, industrial farming by multi-national corporations seeking to corner a niche market with fat margins.