FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT helped bring electricity beyond America's cities to its most distant farms.
Velázquez exposes the delusion of this civilised exchange with sombre irony: the wartorn Dutch landscape spreads out behind the massed troops, smoke rising from distant farms.
Cinemas and art schools, dance ensembles, and music groups are active, as are radio and television broadcasting, the last being especially important in communications with distant farms and villages.
Unlike purple asparagus that has been shipped from distant farms, the slender-to-medium-size organic purple spears that Norwich Meadows Farms in Norwich, N.Y., sells are so fresh, tender and sweet that they do not need to be peeled -- or even cooked.
As lights began to come on in distant farms, the deep green of the high pasture land faded into a blurred monochrome against the sky, and I wondered whether the badgers might think this a better evening to be on the move.
Historically, they've resorted to highly processed, low-nutrient industrial products shipped from distant farms, but now vertical farming — a technique that grows food in vertical stacks — is making it easy to get fresh produce to everyone.
