04 Jun 2005
Give 'em a Chance, Steers Will Eat Grass

Nice write up on pastured protein ... is this a portent of better days ahead for smallholders like us? I hope so!

Although vegetables and fruit grown near the city have been the stars of the Greenmarkets for almost 30 years, pork, beef and lamb from local pastures are fast becoming the new darlings of the stands. New Yorkers, who are among the nation's early adopters of culinary trends, are learning that there is more to meat than uniform grain-fed slabs laid out on plastic trays.

(link) [New York Times]

via scott hutcheson

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