Posted on 02/09/2016 5:48:46 PM PST by Lorianne
So they want the small farmers to make a "few changes, not much really, just a trifle."
And that is where it all goes to pot.
Thank you for this interesting article.
I support this idea. I am also very big into hard stone fruit trees, sort of one of my expertise. Here is California, hard stone fruit trees such as cherry, peach, plum, apricot and so on can grow and flourish. Of course, you need to take care of them as far as proper methods of fertilizer and insect control and so on.
More of us are now growing such trees and crops. With El Nino, water is less of a problem than before. Our biggest problem is Jerry Brown, Governor.
I even had a guava tree, seriously, and banana tree. However the banana tree went over in a serious storm and a hail storm killed my pink guava. But these are possible to grow in the San Francisco Bay Area, it is possible. I have had great turnip harvests, also, and my turnip and cheese soup is famous.
With the decline in my tech stocks, and energy stocks, I have now been successful in my gold funds but also I am now buying corn and wheat ETNs/ETFs. I am not against big farm, but I also like this concept and think more and more should be growing their own food again and get back to farming.
There’s a high end subdivision built out in farm country in my former county. Never fails that every other year the local news station does a story about an incensed home owner complaining at manure spreading time.
Serenbe (in the Chattahoochee Hills area of suburban Atlanta) is one of the farm-centered communities featured in this article. Serenbe is a very upscale community and has attracted the kind of wealthy Buckhead families that have always kept “farms” for weekend and summer getaways. More have chosen to live there full-time in recent years as technology has freed them from everyday Atlanta. Serenbe is a community, not a commune, and its small scale working farms fit the area and supply its market and restaurants with a wide range of fresh produce. It is a very nice place.
How interesting.
I putter around with gardening but not seriously.
I would love to have an orchard someday.
Also, I am the only person I know who likes turnips! You mean there are more of us?
(Actually I like em too but don't tell anybody.)
How quaint, collectives! ;-)
Oh excellent! Forgot about that! hahahaha. Nearby here in Ohio, there is a young farmer who uses horses for fieldwork. Of course, it’s prolly 10 acre patch. But oh yes, and the fertilizer should cause an uproar. Has to be all-natural cow manure, etc. The natural chemicals for bugs and diseases. These fools have no idea what they are buying into if the plots are of a decent size.
Pol Pot for president!
I know, he’s dead but if the dead can vote why can’t they hold office?
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