I have asked several friends and family members to help me with writing some guest blog posts to offer different perspectives and add voices to the dialogue I hope to create through this blog.
Recently, my husband, Nicholas (check out his blog here!), has taken a significant interest in the data you can pull from the work I am interested in. He is very intrigued by how the data shows our disconnect from the land, our food and those amazing people who help put said food on our plates - farmers! While I have been blogging away on my research and activism, Nick has been pulling stats and reveling in all of the data you can find related to food and farming.
I am posting one of his recent search results which shows a disturbing lack of interest in where our food comes from, how it is grown and who grows it.
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Farmer, Farm, Farming, Food: Trends in book references since
1820
I happened across a TED talk about a tool that Google built
that allows you to search a series of words across the ~15 million books that
they have scanned. I was interested to see what people have been saying over
time regarding the “farmer”, their “farm”, the act of “farming”, and “food”. I
was hoping to find some interesting data but what I found was more interesting
than I expected.
Here is the graph from the data:
