Hightower, in his crusade to save the family farmer, focused on efforts to market higher value-added food products in niche markets, markets that wouldn’t interest the big commodity farmers and the big agribusinesses. Organic vegetables, organic grains, and organic meats were seen as one of those efforts. Growing food organically also just happens to aid the reduction of exposure to […]
Organic History in Texas Part 2
The twentieth century produced a revolution in agriculture. This was the third such revolution, the second being the one associated with during the Industrial Revolution, and the first being the domestication and breeding of grain plants—I think that one was called the Neolithic Revolution. Today, the agricultural industry churns out a cornucopia of cereals and fruits and vegetables and […]