food hoarding
Mar. 13th, 2020 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Hey! You! You’re thinking about stocking up on food for the pandemic, right? In case you’re quarantined??
Your local farmer’s market has probably been shut down due to concerns about public gatherings. So you can’t go there to stock up.
Please don’t go buy a pallet of eggs that were farmed by human trafficking victims. Please don’t go buy fifty pounds of bacon from basically unregulated commercial pork farms. Don’t buy a dozen whole frozen chickens processed by slave labor. Don’t blow all your panic-buying cash on corporations who don’t belong to your local economy.
Please, just take a second. If you’re in the US, go to localharvest.org. If you’re not, search for your local farmer’s market. Either way, many of the vendors, the small farmers and local businesses who depend on your local farmer’s market to stay in business are hurting right now.
[image description: a screenshot from my sister’s instagram of a full basket of eggs in front of a barn. shadowy chickens lurk in the background.]
You need to buy food anyway. Take a moment, and inject that cash into your local economy, which needs it. Many, many of the small farmers I know, many of the farmer’s market vendors, are doing online ordering, with local pickup or free local delivery, to your house. (My sister has a post about it on her farm’s instagram, local to NYS’s capital district; their friends in North Adams MA have a similar post. Look near you, I bet there’s somebody.) Many will have meat, many more will have eggs, many will have vegetable boxes and farmshares. Sign up for a CSA, while you’re at it; seeds are going into the greenhouses now, and they need your support.
(If you’re near Washington DC/VA, definitely look up Sylvanaqua Farms, and give them a follow for incredibly salty and amusing and informative instagram stories about racism, land justice, herding cows with a truck, and catching loose chickens. my dude is fucking hilarious, but listen if you get butthurt don’t come for him, he’ll end you.)
Buy a box of local goods to stock up on food. Help save your local small food producers. Support your local food web. Hoard like a dragon, and feel good about it.
Also it’s fun and distracting to look at farm Instagrams because they usually have cute pictures of livestock guardian dogs and chickens. (Ontario: Topsy Farms are pure gold, with lots of essays about hippies.)
Sadly, I don’t have a local dairy, and I need butter for my self-soothing cooking needs, so I’m about to die historic on the fury road trying to do a Wegman’s run. Pray for me.
Hey! You! You’re thinking about stocking up on food for the pandemic, right? In case you’re quarantined??
Your local farmer’s market has probably been shut down due to concerns about public gatherings. So you can’t go there to stock up.
Please don’t go buy a pallet of eggs that were farmed by human trafficking victims. Please don’t go buy fifty pounds of bacon from basically unregulated commercial pork farms. Don’t buy a dozen whole frozen chickens processed by slave labor. Don’t blow all your panic-buying cash on corporations who don’t belong to your local economy.
Please, just take a second. If you’re in the US, go to localharvest.org. If you’re not, search for your local farmer’s market. Either way, many of the vendors, the small farmers and local businesses who depend on your local farmer’s market to stay in business are hurting right now.
[image description: a screenshot from my sister’s instagram of a full basket of eggs in front of a barn. shadowy chickens lurk in the background.]
You need to buy food anyway. Take a moment, and inject that cash into your local economy, which needs it. Many, many of the small farmers I know, many of the farmer’s market vendors, are doing online ordering, with local pickup or free local delivery, to your house. (My sister has a post about it on her farm’s instagram, local to NYS’s capital district; their friends in North Adams MA have a similar post. Look near you, I bet there’s somebody.) Many will have meat, many more will have eggs, many will have vegetable boxes and farmshares. Sign up for a CSA, while you’re at it; seeds are going into the greenhouses now, and they need your support.
(If you’re near Washington DC/VA, definitely look up Sylvanaqua Farms, and give them a follow for incredibly salty and amusing and informative instagram stories about racism, land justice, herding cows with a truck, and catching loose chickens. my dude is fucking hilarious, but listen if you get butthurt don’t come for him, he’ll end you.)
Buy a box of local goods to stock up on food. Help save your local small food producers. Support your local food web. Hoard like a dragon, and feel good about it.
Also it’s fun and distracting to look at farm Instagrams because they usually have cute pictures of livestock guardian dogs and chickens. (Ontario: Topsy Farms are pure gold, with lots of essays about hippies.)
Sadly, I don’t have a local dairy, and I need butter for my self-soothing cooking needs, so I’m about to die historic on the fury road trying to do a Wegman’s run. Pray for me.
