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By JULIA MOSKIN
December 5, 2011 — Jim Gerritsen lives a far piece from New York City, in a remote part of northern Maine that what was once known as the Potato Empire. But there he was on Sunday — at age 56 making his first trip to the city — to speak at the Farmers March on Wall Street.
Mr. Gerritsen, who grows potatoes, corn and wheat, is president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, a national organization that...
"I’m not a jingoist, but I’d prefer that more of my food came from America. It’d be even better, really, if most of it came from within a few hundred miles of where we live. We’d be more secure and better served, and our land would be better used. And I’d feel prouder, as if we had a food culture rather than a food fetish."
Mark Bittman writes in his New York Times article regarding local food supply, Global Trade along with examining the effects of The Farm Bill and encouraging a method for the new farm bill to serve us...
