Editorial
We’ll be sitting down to various versions of Thanksgiving Dinner Oct. 8, but no matter what traditions are followed in your home, one theme runs through the day for most everyone: We’re giving thanks for the bounty of the land we live on.
In one way or another, that translates into thanks to the people who harvest the bounty of that land, people who are too often not recognized or understood in our increasingly urbanized world.
No matter how far removed we are from the land, though, we remain wholly dependent on it for survival. So the conversations around our dinner tables might revolve around how the food on our plates gets from the farm, to the market, and into our baskets.
That’s a discussion of especial importance to this region, where farming is integral to the economy. At Mid-Island Focus we wish you a joyful Thanksgiving, and invite you to continue the conversations about the land and how it’s bounty is harvested throughout the coming year.
If you have a story idea about agriculture, it’s importance to our communities, and how it is evolving in the 21st Century, contact MIF. We’d love to hear from you.
Craig Spence
Editor
