The evil of corporate agriculture is a hot topic these days. According to a growing legion of worried authorities on the subject, the consensus is that as large farming conglomerates swallow our lands, they also swallow our ways of life, our health and our traditions. It is a real and serious concern, and there are no easy answers. But after editing this issue, I am convinced that there is hope here on our peninsula.
This issue is brimming with stories about Door County’s stand against such threatening outside pressures. In fact, though it was not intentional in our planning, almost every article in these pages touches on this theme in some way. Katie Lott Schnorr, for example, writes eloquently about the early success of local CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) and how a burgeoning group of individuals is making sustainable agriculture viable on a small scale. Gary Jones, meanwhile, delves into the rising popularity of gardening on the peninsula (encouraging evidence that people
