{"id":4667,"date":"2015-01-20T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2015-01-20T07:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:01:39","slug":"the-time-has-come-for-local-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"The Time Has Come For Local Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"node__title managed-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/01\/17\/time-has-come-local-agriculture\" target=\"_blank\">The Time Has Come For Local Agriculture<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanswhotellthetruth.org\/portraits\/joan-gussow\">Joan Dye Gussow<\/a>\u00a0will be 87 this year. I visited her last August at her lovely home on the Hudson River north of New York City. The house, designed by her and her late husband, the painter Alan Gussow, abuts the road at the front. Most of Joan\u2019s energy, however, goes into the narrow lot running behind the house down to the Hudson. The lot is all garden\u2014vegetable and flower beds and fruit trees. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy decimated her garden, drowning it under six feet of water. At 83 she rebuilt her garden beds, raising them a foot and constructing a small dike to withstand frequent flooding. I did not paint Joan Gussow for the<em>\u00a0Americans Who Tell the Truth<\/em>\u00a0series \u00a0because she is an octogenarian heroically struggling to save her gardens from climate change and its effects on a massive river. I chose to paint her because for longer than almost anyone else in this country she has been preaching the necessity\u2014for human health, ecological health, and energy health\u2014of local, organic agriculture. About Joan Gussow,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanswhotellthetruth.org\/portraits\/michael-pollan),\">Michael Pollan<\/a>, author or T<em>he Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma<\/em>\u00a0and whose portrait I have also painted, said, \u201cOnce in a while, I think I\u2019ve had an original thought, then I think and read around and realize Joan said it first.\u201d The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0calls her, \u201cThe matriarch of the eat-locally-think-globally food movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">An idea whose time has come is a curious phenomenon. What prepares a culture to adopt a new idea, an idea that precipitates a change in values and lifestyle? A change in language, a change in perceived wisdom? A change in how we instruct and raise our children?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Time Has Come For Local Agriculture Joan Dye Gussow\u00a0will be 87 this year. I visited her last August at her lovely home on the Hudson River north of New York City. The house, designed by her and her late husband, the painter Alan Gussow, abuts the road at the front. Most of Joan\u2019s energy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,319,2759,2758,766],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-food","tag-joan-dye-gussow","tag-local-agriculture","tag-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}