“She wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet. Two other children share a mattress by the rotting wall where the…
Author: sparky
A Skeptical Look at Food, Episode IV
No New Hope In the last part of this series, we’re going to look at farmer’s markets, and locally-grown produce in general. It seems, at first blush, to be a Very Good Thing, and you have to really look for criticism of it. Farmer’s Markets Or, Oh No, Is That Another Distribution Center? So far,…