No longer a little-known piece of farm legislation that would dictate agriculture funding and policy while no one was paying attention. This year, food and farm advocates are pushing hard to publicize the Farm Bill so that the majority of the money isn’t going to big farmers and lobbyists. Instead, they’re trying to gear the money and programs for the Mom and Pop farmer, the fledgling farmers market, the scrawny urban garden, oh yeah, and the grossly obese school child with his school-sponsored chicken nuggets. All the usual neglects.

This is our second Michael Pollan event this month (yup, we’ll admit it), and we brought along some friends to the panel discussion. But this wasn’t really the kind of event to turn the nonbelievers into Michael Pollan groupies like us-- "Pollanized" as several panel speakers joked (a little cult-sounding actually, but we appreciate farmers making puns).

By SFist Jessie