Comments on: In the Name of Progress http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/ Eat Clean Live Well Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:37 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: JoLynn=dreaminitvegan http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3344 JoLynn=dreaminitvegan Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:02:37 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3344 Terry,
Just checked out your book from the library(I do this when I can before I buy) because I’ve heard so much about it. I will be purchasing your new edition along with buying them as gifts for friends. Great info and it backs the feelings I have and what we all should have in regard to eating foods that are produced closer to home and how it’s so much fresher and supports the local farmers if it available. We are lucky to have a farmers market year round where we live along with a lot of other food items produced locally. It breaks my heart to hear stories such as the Avon Cider Mill closing. I hope one day this type of thing stops!

]]> By: Terry Walters http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3342 Terry Walters Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:24:19 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3342 Hi Marsha,

Glad you had a wonderful weekend and thanks for saying hi and introducing yourself at Whole Foods. I guess I’ll just have to have another apple fritter…for you, of course!

Terry

]]> By: Marsha http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3338 Marsha Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:52:10 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3338 Hi Terry,
It was a wonderful coincidence that I happened upon you at Whole Foods in West Hartford as I was passing through on my way to Salisbury. I’m home now after a wonderful weekend getaway and I just read this post with an aching sadness. Having grown up in West Hartford, I share these memories of the Avon Cider Mill.
Had I known it would be gone, I would surely have detoured to make one final farewell visit. Thanks for sharing the memories.
Marsha

]]> By: Terry Walters http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3210 Terry Walters Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:10:44 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3210 Wendy, I’m speechless. Can’t even imagine!

]]> By: Wendy http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3208 Wendy Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:57:59 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3208 Great article but sad as well. I have experienced this firsthand. I grew up in the Canal Zone and my childhood hometown no longer exists. The houses were torn down to make way for a container terminal.

]]> By: paula http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3201 paula Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:56:31 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3201 Oh! That’s good to know, re the Pickin’ Patch. I also heard you at the IIN conference. Thanks for your work, Terry. Hope our paths cross in the field of Green and Clean.

]]> By: Terry Walters http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3193 Terry Walters Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:09:39 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3193 Hi Veronique. What an amazing conference it was and thanks for your kind words. As for progress, it sounds like we’re both sufficiently fed up! Here’s to creating that change. It’s going to take each and every one of us!

]]> By: Terry Walters http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3192 Terry Walters Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:05:31 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3192 Good point about the mega-pharmacies, Paula. You can never have enough pharmacies and banks! (not) I’ll see you at the mill. I’ll be the one inhaling all of the fritters. Look for Avon Cider Mill cider next year at The Picking Patch on Nod Road. They sold that piece of the business and will be helping them make that transition for the next two year.

]]> By: Veronique http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3180 Veronique Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:39:59 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3180 This is very sad indeed. We see it all over the country (and around the world). Major corporations taking over the landscape and destroying family businesses and small communities in the name of profit and greed. Where will it stop? When people will be sufficiently fed up I think. Until then, we can only hope that more and more wake up. I heard you at Integrative nutrition’s mega conference today. I wanted to thank you for promoting healthy foods.

]]> By: paula http://terrywalters.net/2012/10/in-the-name-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-3159 paula Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:49:19 +0000 http://terrywalters.net/?p=6103#comment-3159 Terry, my family and I feel the same way about the loss of the cider mill, the sprouting of mega-pharmacies (how is THAT a mirror of our culture?!), and our slash and burn approach to “progress.” Thanks for the post. It reminds me to take my 22-year-old daughter back for another fritter (we’ve already bought a bushel of saucing apples, so that counterbalances the 2 fritters we’ll buy, no?) before she moves to San Francisco at the end of the month. Appreciate the nudge and the permission!

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