I will be at Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's Sustainable Agriculture Conference in Durham, NC as a trade show participant this weekend, so I am madly preparing my conference materials this week. If you are also going, be sure to say hi!

I am busy updating the course in web design and preparing it as a printable document that will be available to conference attendees and later as a freely available PDF document. Otherwise, I am drawing together the necessary conference materials like a display board and setting up a laptop to demo the Small Farm Central service.

The above means you most likely not find your tasty morsels of farm web marketing advice here this week.

In the meantime, why don't you explore a few links in my "sites of interest" folder:

• A reivew of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the 16th century Italian painter who favored painting faces constructed out of vegetables:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/arts/design/10arci.html
• Recent conversation with Michael Pollan -
  "The interesting thing that I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmer and the best decisions for the environment -- and that there is no contradiction there."
  http://grist.org/feature/2007/10/12/pollan/index.html 
• Great farm blogging with great pictures -- frozen chard is featured in this entry.
  http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/11/03/tis-the-season/