Newsletter Week 6

An article on the airwaves this past week highlighted the work of Roger Doiron, whose organization Kitchen Gardeners International is "one link in a loose chain of partisans who are neither conservatives nor liberals but locavores. They want to think global, eat local. Very local. As in their front and back yards," writes Ellen Goodman.  Doiron is pushing for edible landscapes everywhere from governors' mansions to schoolyards to empty urban plots.  But his biggest push?  He wants the current presidential candidates to pledge that they'll turn a piece of the 18-acre White House grounds into an edible garden.  Doiron's plot is meant to highlight our increasingly troubling food situation: rising costs -- 45 percent worldwide in two years, international food shortages while corn is grown to power cars, weird spinach and tomatoes. And, as we at Wellspring can attest: devastating floods which have ruined many Midwestern acres for the season.  We Wellspringers would be gleefully happy if we were put out of business because everyone decided to grow their own food, as Doiron hopes; but for the green thumb-less, small local farms like Wellspring are the next best thing for the conscious consumer concerned about food issues.  Thanks to all our shareholders, worker and community shares, and volunteers who make local agriculture possible!

-Jeff Schreiber