Garey Farms in Bourbon County announces a new “subscription” option for buying fresh local produce and free range eggs in central Kentucky. During a 26 week season (May 1 through the third week in October), members of this new Community Supported Agriculture option can pick up 10-12 pound baskets at the Lexington Farmers Market each Saturday ($600) or every other Saturday ($325). The brochure says, “We use sustainable growing practices to care for our 60 acres. This means there is a chance some of our crops might not be available due to bugs or drought.”

Call 859.987.3432 or see John or Carla Garey at the corner of Vine and Limestone once the Lexington Farmers Market season begins on April 12, 2008.

Sometimes a thing has to be done. If I am going to have plenty of room for gallons of milk from my friends and for my friends, I need a refrigerator with some “give” to it. Our “new” refrigerator has been wiped out a few times in the five years it has lived on Campsie place, but this was its first sincere, all out, over-the-top, nothing held back SCRUBBING. I took it apart and found stuff I didn’t want to find. And then I cleaned it all up, threw away a lot of food, and put it back together.

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“Going Out to Eat but Staying Green,” an exciting story by Florence Fabricant in the New York Times (2-13-08), describes the spread of “green” practices at restaurants. Fabricant’s examples include restaurants that use sunflower seeds and straw as building materials, practice intensive recycling, buy local ingredients, and avoid problematic cleaning products.

Fabricant reports that restaurants are seeing cost savings from many of these practices. Even more, she notes that many restaurateurs adopt environmentally sound practices out of a commitment to our planet’s wellbeing.

A terrific film, “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” is coming to Lexington’s wonderful Kentucky Theater on February 21, and it’s going to be free!

Here’s a description of the film, which I have seen and recommend for its truthfulness and openness about both farming and life:

The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005); United States; not rated: Taggart Siegel’s documentary looks at John Peterson, a Midwestern farmer who opened his land to a communal group of hippies and artists in the 1960s and, during the ensuing decades, survived numerous natural and economic crises to maintain his farm. 5 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21, Kentucky Theatre.

We owe this free showing to the wonderful One World Film Festival, a Lexington jewel, now nine years old, that keeps getting better and better. Check out the other excellent free offerings all through February, and I’ll see you at the movies.

The Slow Food movement is slowly (of course) influencing more spheres of life. See “The Slow Life Picks Up Speed.”

Two things about that. First, ongoing gratitude to the New York Times for reopening all its articles, all the time, for all the people. That openness in a commercial news outlet is a marvel.

And second, when do we get to “Slow Work?” That’s my big interest.