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I'm looking to put together a collection of pictures for all of the food and farming writers here to draw on. If you've got a farm or are in a rural area, we need your pictures. If you're a city dweller like me, community farms, farmers' markets and even pics of your own small plots are welcomed.
I've been reading a lot of food and farming diaries lately. With the farm bill (still) coming up in the Senate, Presidential candidates talking about rural issues, and my preliminary work talking to folks in California's inland areas about how to turn those areas blue (or bluer), I'm reading as much as I can. I'm not alone in this. Unfortunately, it is a small dedicated group that reads and writes on these issues.
Now, we can talk about the quality of the writing or the name recognition of the authors, or even the titles of the diaries. But let's face it: all these things being equal, a picture is worth 100 recs.
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