

Grace Gershuny
- Jun 13, 2016
Anti-Organic Confluences
The Organic Confluences Summit, discussed in my June 1st post, was such an affirming experience--I came home full of optimism and ideas. That sunny outlook got a good swift kick a few days after my return, when I went off to complete a rush inspection assignment in Toledo, OH. Looking around, it occurred to me that I was witnessing an opposite kind of confluence. The client I visited is located in Toledo’s Port Authority, which sits at the confluence of oil pipelines and the


Grace Gershuny
- Jun 1, 2016
Reflections on organic confluences
Last week the Organic Revolutionary went on a road trip, getting home just before Memorial Day weekend. Starting out on May 18th, I made my way from northeastern Vermont to Brooklyn, then on to Kutztown, PA and finally Washington, DC for the Organic Trade Association (OTA) policy week events on May 23-24. It was a week full of confluences and synchronicity--everyone I met affirmed and amplified the importance of the message that organic farming is a key strategy that we can i