Comments on: Late blight: A weak link in the local food chain http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/572 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:58:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: CB http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/572/comment-page-1#comment-126444 CB Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:18:53 +0000 http://bostonlocalvores.org/blog/?p=572#comment-126444 Off-topic, but can you elaborate on what you said about your Mac, because I've never heard of that before? Off-topic, but can you elaborate on what you said about your Mac, because I’ve never heard of that before?

]]> By: www.HOMEGROWN.org » Blog Archive » Late blight and the concentration of power in industry http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/572/comment-page-1#comment-126425 www.HOMEGROWN.org » Blog Archive » Late blight and the concentration of power in industry Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:42:43 +0000 http://bostonlocalvores.org/blog/?p=572#comment-126425 [...] Our friends at Boston Localvores have reposted a bulletin from Growing For Market that outlines the reasons for the late blight that is obliterating farmer crops along the Eastern seaboard, into Ohio and West Virginia: the concentration of power in the distribution of starter plants. Well-intentioned home gardeners who bought seedlings from “big box stores” were in large part the proxy for this menacing fungus reaching our beloved farmers. [...] [...] Our friends at Boston Localvores have reposted a bulletin from Growing For Market that outlines the reasons for the late blight that is obliterating farmer crops along the Eastern seaboard, into Ohio and West Virginia: the concentration of power in the distribution of starter plants. Well-intentioned home gardeners who bought seedlings from “big box stores” were in large part the proxy for this menacing fungus reaching our beloved farmers. [...]

]]> By: Buy Food | All Days Long http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/572/comment-page-1#comment-126411 Buy Food | All Days Long Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:10:59 +0000 http://bostonlocalvores.org/blog/?p=572#comment-126411 [...] On the origins of late blight « boston localvores, the blog By darry They intuitively recognize that buying food at the local farmers market, or direct from a farm CSA, is smarter and safer than buying from a big grower shipping from the other side of the continent. The increase in consumer demand has … boston localvores, the blog – http://bostonlocalvores.org/blog/ [...] [...] On the origins of late blight « boston localvores, the blog By darry They intuitively recognize that buying food at the local farmers market, or direct from a farm CSA, is smarter and safer than buying from a big grower shipping from the other side of the continent. The increase in consumer demand has … boston localvores, the blog – http://bostonlocalvores.org/blog/ [...]

]]> By: Andree/JP Green House http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/572/comment-page-1#comment-126397 Andree/JP Green House Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:07:49 +0000 http://bostonlocalvores.org/blog/?p=572#comment-126397 "Ach Paddy, we'll have to take the boat back to ol' Ireland now! The blight's gone folllowed us to America." Not funny at all, when you consider that this is the disease that wiped out one third of the Irish population, essentially, during the Famine. A few years past Peak Oil and such an event could mean life-and-death, not just "do we make those fresh Bloody Marys this year". “Ach Paddy, we’ll have to take the boat back to ol’ Ireland now! The blight’s gone folllowed us to America.”

Not funny at all, when you consider that this is the disease that wiped out one third of the Irish population, essentially, during the Famine. A few years past Peak Oil and such an event could mean life-and-death, not just “do we make those fresh Bloody Marys this year”.

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