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 To me, the most interesting thing that we learned while at Pete's farm was his reasons behind not going organic. That, and his explanation of how he knew that cows have feelings. I feel like a good deal of the things that we talked about were things we had gone over in class, but nonetheless, it was nice to hear a personal perspective and see how it affected everything that was around us. I have been on a couple of farms like Pete's, but I had never seen a compost pile as big as the one he had which I found to be rather interesting because it made me wonder how much of what he grew ended up in the compost pile and how much he was actually able to sell. There is bound to be a certain amount of waste that is produced on a farm, but how much is there really? And, does it significantly reduce his profits? 

I would say that the trip was worth the environmental cost because it allowed us to see how close we are to this style farm. I'm not saying that it means that every weekend we will be able to go there and support this source of local produce, but it does show me that there IS a source of local produce. It made me want to go out and see if there is anyway for me, as a student, to get to a farmer's market close by which would allow me to make more choices about what I eat.