I came across an interesting article in TIME magazine online. The article, Eating Local Before It’s Too Late by Joel Stein, described how our country’s food is becoming more and more homogenized. The author notes the “limited number of eating opportunities in our life spans.” Dishes native to regions of the U.S. are disappearing. Stein ends with a bit of optimism adding, “While every highway Olive Garden and Chili’s hinders that dynamism, local cuisine is not gone yet.”
At the end of the article, there was a link to pictures of Urban Farming. In efforts to grow food closer to where we live, many are making efforts to plant city gardens. Some of the pictures are of farms already in existence where people are coming together to grow food in parks and on rooftops. There are also several pictures of what could be. I was quite intrigued by the different vertical farms that could be placed in our cities. This idea is sort of bitter-sweet however. While it is quite interesting that perhaps one day we could have vertical farms, it is also disturbing that we may no longer have traditional farms. I think these vertical urban farms would be a wise addition and may decrease travel of produce but I do not want to live in a world void of farms.
