Sorry, No Real Post Today, or More about The Paper Eating My Brain 22 March 2007 10:44 pm
Posted by Tracy in : agriculture,eating,eugene,identity,politics,school,sustainability , trackbackIt’s all I can think about, okay? Today I figured out what’s really wrong with my final paper for my sustainable agriculture class: it’s what happens when I write at least three or four essays at once without realizing it. One discusses the future of sustainable agriculture as it relates to food security, because that lends itself so nicely to a multi-layered discussion from the individual to the institutional and even global levels, and gives me another chance to work in topics from last term’s food anthropology class, like food citizenship and food sovereignty. Another essay is very personal, with a personal history of my involvement in “alternative” food systems like CSA and farmers markets (mostly in Eugene), all the way through to my dream of Apple as part of an urban farm (here I would also like to include references to my grandparents in the Netherlands, and their fierce loyalty to Dutch produce — the local foods movement is not all that new). Then again, I also want to write about the dairy we visited for class, as sort of a case study illustrating all kinds of sustainability-related issues. The dairy farm reminds me about reading Diet for a Small Planet. Current events make me want to work in the fact that it’s World Water Day and references to the U.S. Farm Bill currently being wrangled in Congress (I should really be following the news on that more closely anyway). On and on and on and on… whine, whine, whine.
At least now that I’ve recognized that I’m writing multiple essays I can try to finish some of them and tie them all together at the end, right? Gaaaaah.
