Hi Everybody,

Well it certainly seems like Spring has arrived, and I am very excited to begin working in my garden again. I’ve met some wonderful people who will be interning with me this summer, and assisting me in my garden and Farm to Table Summer Cooking Classes. Stay tune for the upcoming schedule!

As I read more and more about the drought in California, I was shocked to learn that in addition to Nestle helping themselves to free water for their bottling operation, oil companies like Chevron are selling their oil contaminated wastewater from fracking wells, back to farmers for watering their crops.?And the scariest thing is that this has been going on for 2 decades and?State and local officials think it is worthy of becoming a national model for coping with the region’s water shortage. How is that possible? Don’t they see the obvious health implications of such a practice? The water authorities rely on government testing, but they are not testing for the chemicals found in modern oil production. Read the article from the LA Times. You won’t believe it!

This week, my guest on the Progressive Radio Network is Margaret Gray, an Associate Professor at Adelphi University in Political Science, and author of;?Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic.?Margaret, or Maggie, as her friends call her, took a long look at the local food movement, to see whether the unfair labor practices, that exploit immigrants and are rampant in factory farms and industrial agriculture operations, are also prevalent in small family farms in our local Hudson Valley food movement. I was very surprised and disappointed to find out that many of the same exploitative practices, ?where?undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America endure horrible living conditions, and live in fear of getting fired or deported if they so much as ask for a raise.?And these local farms are the farms supplying our CSA’s, farmers markets and sustainable restaurants. Please join me on Thursday to learn more about how we can all help to make the Good Food Movement a movement that incorporates fair labor practices into the concept of a Sustainable Food Movement. By the way, fair labor practices is built into the tag line of the Slow Food Movement: Good Clean and Fair!? Just another reason why I love the Slow Food Movement!

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With love and gratitude,

Bhavani