Do you ever just get outraged when someone makes a statement that has total disregard for anyone besides themselves? I was browsing the May issue of Fruit Grower’s News and there was a headline that read “Too much regulation could abolish farmers’ markets.” Of course I had to continue on…
The term Homegrown has a potentially new meaning. Rather than a seasonal offering from a local farmer, it could mean grown in the USA. Let’s face it, we sent hoards of manufacturing jobs overseas over the past 50 years in the quest to lower the cost of production by reducing labor expense and avoiding environmental […]
As we see the snow melt and the frost come out of the ground here in the Nasty North, growers are beginning to think about planting their crops and marketers are starting to talk to the end users to get an idea of what they hope to buy. While this discourse is useful and essential, […]
When my children were in school, there was a program aimed at drug prevention called D.A.R.E. [Drug Abuse Resistance Education]. At this point, we are being dared by the corrupt ‘powers that be’ in Mexico to buy limes at prices tantamount to contraband
I was traveling last week. When I checked out of the hotel, the clerk at the desk circled the web address on the statement where I could go to take a survey and earn reward points towards a free night’s stay. I stopped for gas and if I took the survey at the bottom of […]
