What's amazing to me is that few people are seeing this coming or thinking about what adjustments in lifestyle they want/need to make. Even my partners at Moosewood have only a vague sense of the rising costs due to energy & transportation. Family & friends are either oblivious and expect everything to get back to "normal" or they have a vague unease about what's happening. I'm thinking about goats to mow my lawn & getting a chicken coop started before too long. Saving seeds is just a blip on my radar. Something to really start looking into. Tony
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Joel and Sarah Gagnon < [email protected]> wrote: > What we are seeing here is the opposite of localization. It is the > continued consolidation of the retail food distribution network. We are > still in the cheap energy era, thanks to the global recession. P&C will be > replaced by the new Walmart supermarket, probably at the expense of the Tops > market. None of this will change until transportation costs rise markedly. > I'm hoping local producers can hang on until that happens. > > Joel > > > At 08:40 AM 11/23/09 -0800, you wrote: > >> I heard yesterday about Top's market being in Chapter 11 bankruptcy >> proceedings for the past two years - and that the P&C markets are facing the >> same thing and may be closed by February '10. >> Went to sleep last night fretting that I don't know how to harvest seeds >> to the following year's planting; can foods; even plan a garden so that we >> can feed the Level Green household through the winter. AND feeling very >> blessed, as I finally drifted off, to live in a community where these skills >> are generously shared with all willing to take the time to learn. Which I >> haven't been so far - but am now! >> What happens if Tops & P&C close - to all the low-income folks who count >> on being able to walk to get food ? would locally-owned, smaller groceries >> distributed throughout the area be fiscally viable? can we think about CSGs >> - community-supported-grocery-stores? >> The Danby and Varna markets couldn't make it. Seneca FAlls has a >> locally-owned food store but it's struggling. >> It seems that localization has caught up with us, much sooner than I, or >> any but the most prescient of us, expected. >> When I used to hear 'food insecurity' I thought of the Sudan. Now I think >> about the senior housing at East Hill. Very sobering. >> >> LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative >> initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old >> democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School. 1519 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, >> NY 14850 (607) 339-9472 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, >> please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ >> >> RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: >> [email protected] >> http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins >> Questions about the list? ask >> [email protected] >> free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org >> > _______________________________________________ > For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, > please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ > > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > Questions about the list? ask > [email protected] > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > -- There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good. - Robert Pirsig _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
