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I'm looking to put together a collection of pictures for all of the food and farming writers here to draw on. If you've got a farm or are in a rural area, we need your pictures. If you're a city dweller like me, community farms, farmers' markets and even pics of your own small plots are welcomed.
I've been reading a lot of food and farming diaries lately. With the farm bill (still) coming up in the Senate, Presidential candidates talking about rural issues, and my preliminary work talking to folks in California's inland areas about how to turn those areas blue (or bluer), I'm reading as much as I can. I'm not alone in this. Unfortunately, it is a small dedicated group that reads and writes on these issues.
Now, we can talk about the quality of the writing or the name recognition of the authors, or even the titles of the diaries. But let's face it: all these things being equal, a picture is worth 100 recs.
So here's what I'm doing and how you can jump in:
If you've got photos that you want in the pool, you can
1. Post'em below! I'll try to move a few above the fold.
2. Email them to me at rural kos at makes things go dot com
If you want to use the photos, you can find them here: http://s191.photobucket.com/...
Please please please only send in or post photos that can be used without limits or restrictions by the bloggers that frequent this site. All photos are credited by dkos username. If you'd like a different credit, let me know.
My next project is going to be sorting and indexing the pictures.
Update: Forgot to add this bit: There are plenty of other picture resources for the enterprising Kossack as well. Renaissance grrrl tipped me off to a great collection of photos on the USDA website. You want food and farming? They got it. You want plants? They got those too.