My big project last winter was kickstarting the "Ooooby Box" with Pete Russell and James Samuel (of Transition Town fame). What's an Ooooby Box I hear you ask? It's box of local veges, mainly organic, delivered to your door of course! Now that's all good and that, but what I didn't expect to see quite so clearly was the reason why we mostly have mega farms and chemical food on the table. Let me bring up Neil who I met along the way. He hated his job a dozen years ago. That's because his job was to say to farmers "Sorry we can't take your produce anymore, you're too small, the … [Read more...]