A Day at the Farm

I'm terribly behind in my blogging responsibilities, I know, and I do apologize. We had a busy weekend with friends and family, which included my little niece sleeping in our office - thus, no computer. Thus, no Sunday night blog post. This I shall quickly remedy.

A couple of weeks ago we took Isaac up to Nan Gailyn's farm to see the 4-day old calves.
As you can see, he was dead keen.

You might remember our visit last year to Staglands in the Akatarawas, where upon seeing a couple of lambs Isaac - then not even two years old - said, in all seriousness:

"Lamb...Food...Dinner."

Yip. Macabre as it may seem, I felt like I must have doing something right that my boy recognised that food doesn't come from a shop, but from the real world.

On the drive up to the farm the other day, he saw cows out the window of the car, and had this to say on the matter:

"That's a cow."

"That's beef."

"That's dinner."

With apologies to any vegetarians reading (No, I'm not getting into that discussion here), I consider this continued success. He also knows that milk and cheese come from cows, that chickens give us eggs, and that we also eat chickens.

No sugar coating here.

Unless you're talking about the alpacas:
I'm not sure what he sees in these surly, smelly beasts of burden, but Isaac just loves getting to see alpacas, and even pat their ears. Maybe it's because we don't eat alpaca - we just wear their wool.

That's all for now. I've got a mountain of writing work and audio editing that I need to get up to date with, so I'll be back soon with more foody goodness.

Take care everyone.

To My Valued American Readers

It has been brought to my attention that there are some very worrying things going on in the USA as regards the production of organic produce and small scale farming.

Please go and read this post by Moose, which is a brief sum up of the law being pushed through the US legislature right now which will basically destroy the rights of anyone who wants to grow their own food, AT ALL.

This is serious stuff, and being rammed through without any publicity or consultation. Moose has some good links, please have a read and take action to spread the word.

Come on Obama, how can you let this happen?

Don't let Monsanto bully you all into their machine. Every person has a right to grow food for themselves, and the fines of $1,000,000 per offence per day for growing food without pesticides or fertilizers is just insane.