Senator Kirtsen Gillibrand announced today efforts to support New York Dairy Farms.
However, the real message of today’s news is not that the government is stepping up to support farmers – it has tried hard to help for thirty years with scant result. The real message is that if we want any farms at all, it’s time to buy local. If we don’t buy local now, farms will just disappear: no farmland to protect, no reduction in food miles, and very little way to know your food source. In the last five years, New York State has lost 25 percent of its dairy farmers.
Five Acre Farms: Positively Local.