http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112035045

Since the 1980s, American agriculture has become increasingly concentrated. Today, less than 2 percent of farms account for half of all agricultural sales. The new antitrust division of President Obama's Justice Department has said that scrutinizing monopolies in agriculture is a top priority...

Guernica: Food Among The Ruins

by Mark Dowie

Detroit, the country’s most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm. Mark Dowie’s immodest proposal...

http://www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/1182/food_among_the_ruins/

You can see the posting at: http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/com/1015076534.html

Dan

Might see if we can post this on Freecycle - they might be interested.

...This is the garden labor/space/time-share network we discussed setting up at the Money Summit at Countryside U. U. Church in Palatine yesterday. Please join and help promote.

Dan