Yale Environment 360: Renowned chef Dan Barber is synonymous with the farm-to-table movement. His two New York restaurants feature organic ingredients grown or raised on nearby farms, including the one that surrounds his Hudson Valley restaurant.
So its striking that in his new book, The Third Plate, Barber mantains that the movement he has championed hasnt gone far enough. It has failed, Dan Barber he says, to create markets for the diverse crops that a sustainable farm needs to maintain a rich, healthy soil.
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