Our farmers are threatened by Big Agribiz. They need us.
― John F. Kennedy
― Thomas Jefferson
I have a long history of inventing tools for animators and also making films and photographs. My wife, daughter and I live at the foot of beautiful Mt. Tamalpais on the San Francisco Bay and I've been using technology to tell complex stories for a long time. My biggest claim to fame? Leading the team that created Autodesk 3ds Max... the most popular 3D animation tool of all time. When I sold the Yost Group to Autodesk at the end of the last century I jumped headfirst into pursing my original love... photography and filmmaking. Now I spend all of my time exploring the mysteries of my world with my cameras, and revealing what I find in my images and films.
Another great post, I support my local farmers and grow my own veggies too!
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Right on! I'm always in conflict between growing my own food vs supporting the farmers, and end up just growing a few things like cherry tomatoes and herbs just to keep my hands dirty a bit. There's a great quote from Wendell Berry about how even if we don't farm, we do.... "Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy."
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love farmers markets and have always supported when I lived in the UK - found my first one and going this Saturday , to one in EGYPT! - organic yipeeeeee ( living here at the moment)
Lots of outdoor markets, but not sure how organic these are, so should be a good trip. Will post about it
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Wow, I can't wait to see your post from the Egyptian market this Saturday. (following you now)
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This is a wonderful post @yostopia. My family just visited Nebraska. I was talking to my wife's high school friends that have farms there. They talk about how the town failing and the small farms are disappearing. We go there every five years and it seems to get worse and worse every time we go. I talked to a high school teacher there in Nebraska and he says the kids don't want to stay in the family farm after high school graduation. They are all leaving to the city and want to be in computer programming, science, engineering etc... I was in biotech for most of my career but sometimes I think we are creating too many scientist and engineers. All these college grads can't even find jobs. Our biggest client at my company was Monsanto. I don't know what the answer is. I think people like yourself creating awareness. We always support our local farmers markets. Thanks for the post and you portraits/photos are lovely. Cheers.
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Yup if we don't take action soon, it's going to be a whole 'nother world around here. Check out some of the posts about farms from @anwenbaumeister ... she went to a conference in Sacramento recently about this and visited some farms that are making great strides in educating the next generation of farmers.
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Yes, I had this similar chat with her on her post. Take care.
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Great to see these wonderful photos! Thank your from Australia! :-)
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