Thursday
May072009
The Michelle Obama Bounce: Organic farms
Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 7:49AM
Retail sales of organic produce have reached $20 billion; 5% of veggies sold are now organic; and 1% of milk comes from organic dairy farms. And Michael Pollan (on last week's forum program) says there is a new form of organic conservative calling themselves "crunchycons". It is a new world. To illuminate these trends, NYTimes' map department turns to organic farms, and produces these useful maps.
Reader Comments (3)
It's great to see she is so pro-active in positive things such as organic farms. Hopefully, this will start a trend that will spread across the nation and the world.
Joseph Acai