And, for something inspiring for the weekend, this delicious item from the New York Times.
Lawn mowing and baby-sitting are standard summer jobs for the enterprising teenager. Alexandra Reau, who is 14, combines a little bit of each: last year, she asked her dad to dig up a half acre of their lawn in rural Petersburg, Mich., so she could farm. Now in its second season, her Garden to Go C.S.A. (community-supported agriculture) grows for 14 members, who pay $100 to $175 for two months of just-picked vegetables and herbs. While her peers are hanging out at Molly’s Mystic Freeze and working out the moves to that Miley Cyrus video, she’s flicking potato-beetle larvae off of leaves in her V-neck T-shirt and denim capris, a barrette keeping her hair out of her demurely made-up eyes. Who says the face of American farming is a 57-year-old man with a John Deere cap?
It's a great read, a truly inspiring story.
No stimulus money spent here.
No farm subsidies.
No gubbermint involvement, period. (At least not yet!)
No bankers.
Positive economic and cultural outcomes for all parties.
Damn! How'd that happen?
Three cheers, and a Green Shoots award for Miss Reau.
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