Favorite Organizations: Slow Food, and Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance

Reader Contribution by Jim Christie
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We’ve been back in Texas from Australia now over 1-1/2 years. The first year plus was spent getting through the first stage of settling in – finishing the house, getting the garden going, setting up a modular home for Julie’s Mom and screening in the large porch. We were also joined on the homestead by our oldest grandchild.  She’s going to college here in Texas and now shares our life — at least for awhile.

The blogs I wrote initially chronicled our early learning process and the build out of our barndominium. But now that the “barn” is mostly complete, it didn’t seem there was much more to write about in that area. There may be some significant activities we undertake to add to the homestead (and I’ll blog about those) but I wanted to write about other areas of interest and passion — food and how it gets to our table.

In Australia, we enjoyed meeting and knowing Matthew Evans, writer of a number of books about his experience in going from big city Sydney to small town Tasmania, creating a homestead and various business ventures around those.  Google Gourmet Farmer and his name to get more information on Matthew.  He is in the middle of the Australia local food scene and we learned from him a lot about food and how it gets to our table.  Also, we learned how a plethora of local, state and national rules and procedures seemed to favor “big food” and disadvantage local producers.

As we were moving to Texas, we discovered an organization called Slow Food.

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