Bioneers: You’ve been covering food and farming as a journalist now for ten years. What changes have you seen?
CHC: The biggest surprise is that, after ten years of discouraging news, there is now a real maturity to our movement and a sense of hope emerging.
The farmers and activists I talk to are optimistic. There is a growing confidence in our ability to step forward and take the lead. For so long it seemed like we were stuck in the struggle. The ravages of industrial agriculture and the complete capitulation of government agencies and land grant universities to the corporate agenda have been relentless. There were organized attacks on the organic standards and GMO contamination to contend with along with working out how to grow healthy food in harmony with nature. But we are succeeding. Change is in the air.
