It's no joke that we're gonna have to relearn all the basic localized patterns of survival our parents tossed out when they entered Cornucopious.
Maybe some of the cognitive dissonance will evaporate the NEXT time gas goes sailing past $5/gallon?

I've been called a food snob plenty of times - it still doesn't make me want to eat crappy food. Maybe it's because the people calling me names usually aren't the healthiest folks I've ever seen?

d'accord

Yeahhhhhh, he's doin' this just for grins, because, y'know, setting up an
alternative transportation system and finding farmers willing to give him a chance is a piece of Easy Bake cake. This is
their FOURTH sea trial run, not a fun jaunt to Gilligan's
Island or U Dub's Booze
'n Cruise.

Dave (not Steve; and Scottish, not Australian) is a very skilled engineer and sailor who is actually quitting his real job -and, in partnership with Sustainable Ballard---is working to resurrect a sustainable transport system, in hopes of someday both making a living wage from
it, and providing the Ballard community with food security (actually,
via Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound, we plan on freely sharing this program with any WA town that has water access.)

Perhaps you haven't gotten The Memo yet from Mother Nature that we
haven't been the most considerate house guests, scarfing down everything in the pantry. Shockingly, according to those crazed Republican hippies at the Wall Street Journal, peak oil is real.

I challenge you, Grubby Ballard and Joey, to resign your positions in the Fighting Keyboardists Regiment, turn off the monitor, and come down to the next Sustainable Ballardmeeting!

Closing thought from James Kunstler's blog, author of The Long Emergency:

The
economy we're moving into will have to be one of real work, producing real things of value, at a scale consistent with energy resource reality.

rot and die? Aren't you worried about the CO emissions?

Produce by boat? What's not to like?

why?

I hear you Zeke, but the carbon-freaks and enviro-yuppies are comin' for the Bardalh sign, I tell ya.

There gonna hang a big ol' Prius sign up there or sumthing.

Or a statue to their carbon-heavy hero, Mayor Nickels.

riddle me this: exactly how many potatoes equals a tote?

Hey, don't joke about the Bardahl sign! If that thing ever comes down, I'm gonna start killin' mother-effers.

Rusty, some of us think carbon-free food has no flavor. I like my meat with a gallon of gas, thank you. Maybe feel guilty when you chow down on a meaty, corn feed burger, I don't.

You try fishing for salmon with 'sails' sometime, see how long you last.

Wow, I don't understand people sometimes, why fight a new move towards carbon free food distribution? This man loves his food and the relationships he has gained from working with these farmers, as well as doing what he loves, sailing. Shilshole is a permit less peer unlike Long Shore so that's where he share the wealth from outside the city. If you choose to flame, so be it, more food for us open minded "yuppies" that doesn't taste like the bland safeway garbage.

to understand more where he's coming from and where I met him, visit: http://www.seattleoil.com/

m-

Yass! I too grow BORED of all of you! I shall go where a fine mind like mine can engage in serious conversations about things other people can do for the world! Off! Off to my Coldplay message board! AWAY! See you there!

Grubby is hot today.

"Enviro-yuppies can choke on it, true Ballardites eat meat, fish and potatoes and don’t care if it makes their nuts shrink and 8 year old daughters grow breasts."

That had me larfing. Yes, larfing!

wow - lots of sweeping generalizations and general bitchery. What's up - not enough fiber in your diet?

Bored of this now. Lets find something else we can toss cliches and stereotypes around while complaining about something we aren't required to deal with if we don't want to.

Lighten up folks!!

I dislike hippies -- despise their posturing for a better world while the majority of them sit on their butts, judging others. BUT, as someone who worked at PCC for three years (as a stone-cold food newbie) I came to appreciate something that is often pegged to the hippie agenda: food that's grown and produced healthier -- without freaky chemicals, artificial flavors and hidden calories. The organic movement has gained traction because many people are sick of being force-fed crap. Not to sound preachy (hate that, too) but organic farming is good for so many reasons. Just look all the companies (McDonald's, Kraft, Safeway) that have started dipping their toes in the movement. Why? Because that's what consumers want. Real people -- not just food snobs. Hopefully, it's not just a fad. And hopefully, the market will be forced to make organic/natural food more affordable to meet this demand. It’s not pretentious to want to eat healthy … and not absorb a bunch of trans-fats, hidden sugars and other stuff that make people – even hippies – fat and lazy.

why not just got to the Ballard farmer's market on Sunday and select and pay for the food you want?

Hey hippie, who are you call a commie?

Ah yes. Let's protest the carrots coming to Ballard from farmers in Sequim, so we can keep buying tainted spinach from the government of China. They both arrive on a boat, but why support our own, local capitalist economy, when we can support Communists?

Hail Communism!

Actually, at $2/pound this is pretty economical. I'm not a snobby eater, I buy plenty of non-organic food because I figure it's better to be able to afford plenty of non-organic fruit and veggies then no organic ones. I told my husband about this and the first thing he said is "sounds expensive", but the price is actually good for any lolcal produce, not to mention that it's organic.

Next these enviro-yuppies will make us change our beloved Bardahl oil sign into a giant compact flouro sign for hemp products.

A foreigner? What language does he speak because here in Ballard we like our petroleom products, they are what drive our industrial economy. Not all of us want to live by selling $15 organic ear wax candles at the upscale farmers market.

The guy's name is Steve! he's a really awesome Aussie (I think) maybe a Brit. Anyways he's a really cool guy, extremely focused on changing the face of the petrol dependent way of Ballard. Don't just buy from him, get to know him because he's here to stay and needs our support.

I agree Joey. They are so 'smug' eating this stuff, washed down with that Pope's Piss they drink with it. Working stiffs are never smug when we eat, we eat like real people.......buurrrppppp!

But joey, those worms are organic! I'm pretty sure enviro-yuppies feed them to their kids. It's how they get the Emo look.

Trust me, I've taken a dump in the yard too. Now that's old school.

hey grubster-

real "old ballard" did not use any chemicals on their gardens, just composted manure-

so you are not "old ballard" then?

Its the smugness in how you eat the food. Now do us all a favor and move back to Portland.

I still don't understand what's pretentious about fresh produce delivered by a boat? Especially if it's produce that's grown by farmers who truly care about the quality of the product they're selling. If you don't like organic produce, you can continue to eat the nutrition-depleted stuff they sell at Safeway and Costco. But seriously … why slag on farmers who are making an honest living using growing methods that have been around for centuries?

As pretentious as this might sound, I think it's great. I spend a lot of time in Sequim up the road from Nash's produce and Sunny Farms Coop and can tell you firsthand that the food is good and not as expensive as the "organic" stuff we get in our stores.

i think it sounds awesome. go eat some mcdonalds grubby ballard.

4 dollars for tomatoes that might have worm holes. I really don't understand the whole organic thing.

Right on Joey, who needs all this fancy, organic stuff? $4 tomatoes? No thanks, I can get a bag for the same price at Fred Meyer.

Enviro-yuppies can choke on it, true Ballardites eat meat, fish and potatoes and don't care if it makes their nuts shrink and 8 year old daughters grow breasts.

"Finley Ridgeman // Dec 15, 2008 at 11:26 pm

I’m concerned that this doesn’t sound pretentious enough. Is there some way of making this service even more douche-tastic?"

I was thinking the same thing, its just not quite "green" enough.

Perhaps we could get the mayor to charge a green fee for the tote bags?

C'mon Finley. Imagine a drive from the peninsula to Shilshole vs a boat to Shilshole. It's pretty much a no-brainer – if you’ve got access to a boat. There are a ton o’ farms in that area. Why would they want to slog it out on I-5 on the ice and snow? And by the by, if you've never eaten Nash's carrots, you're missing out, as far as produce goes. Nice up-to-the-moment incorporation of “douche” into your post, tho. Hipper than thou are thee.

I'm concerned that this doesn't sound pretentious enough. Is there some way of making this service even more douche-tastic?

Oddly, starting over 100 years ago until the 1940's, produce (and eggs and dairy) was delivered daily to Ballard down at the ferry dock next to Ray's Boathouse from the Kitsap Peninsula!

We used to have ferries going to Indianola and Suquamish out of Ballard daily- now it takes hours to get there by car!