Update 2

I am planning to write my essay on the importance of local farms. My social science is education, dealing with knowing the negatives of industrialized farming, and knowing the positives of local farms.

My survey has 44 responses, so I feel really good about the information I have received and the amount of respondents. A little over half of the respondents said that they could not name any local farms in their area and the rest said that yes they could or named a farm. 70.5% said that they do not know where their food comes from. Also, 72.7% said that they were aware that industrialized farming has many negative aspects. This part of my survey surprised me because I was thinking that maybe people didn't realize that industrialized farming had so many flaws and negative aspects but turns out that people do know that and still continue to support them. Most people said that they buy the majority of their food at a grocery store (instead of a farmers market). I am now beginning to write my paper!

Update on Essay 4

I am planning to write my essay on the importance of local farms. My social science is education, dealing with knowing the negatives of industrialized farming, and knowing the positives of local farms. I am currently working on getting my survey up on the web, but some questions that I plan to use so far are; Can you name any local farms in your area? Do you know where your food comes from? Are you aware that industrialized farms have many negative aspects? I plan to have my survey up and rolling by tomorrow Tuesday, November 13. I am also going to discuss the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project in the essay since I have studied it some for past essays.