350.org on the farm - The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston

I went to a local organic farm, Plato's Harvest, to help plant garlic and harvest potatoes. While, at first glance, our work day didn't seem to me to have a direct impact on greenhouse gas emissions, farmer Sasha Purpura pointed out that their farm doesn't rely on petroleum-based fertilizers and is mostly run with manual labor instead of fossil fuel dependent machinery. The work day, although exhausting (after separating hundreds of cloves of garlic, my fingers can barely type this) was mostly about fun, meeting new people, and connecting to where my food comes from.