Apple growers and other agricultural producers are in a real crisis
situation. The labor supply that we depend on to get our crops harvested
and packed, as well as our trees pruned, is in jeopardy. A bill has been
introduced in the House and Senate to reform the current H2A labor
program, as
I tried ambrosia which was being grown at UNH Farm in NH I held a tasting
and ambrosia came out on top! As I understand it the nursery in BC that dev'd
ambrosia took back the rights to this variety, wood not available on this
patented var. I prefer holstein( a cox oranfe pippin sib) that gets
Yes, - I found out TODAY that Ambrosia is patented and not available in the US.
I pleaded with Summit Tree Sales to try and get me some trees for
2008 but the outlook is bleak.
We put a few trees in about 5 years ago and everyone was crazy about them.
I was so confident because they are in
I suppose the possibility of Frankenbees exists and I would to hear from an
expert about all the possible negative ramifications of mans medalling with
the natural order of things.
Jim Friedler
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The only way to avoid possible negative ramifications of
man's meddling with the natural order of things would be for us to
revert to a hunter-gatherer social structure, and even that would
have its impacts! All of agriculture including organic agriculture
has negative impacts if one
