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By: Dropstone Farms » Small milestones

Dropstone Farms » Small milestones — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:07:22 +0000

[...] by Lauren on 02 May 2009 at 11:07 pm | Tagged as: internets We posted on the day, but didn’t realize it was the blog’s first anniversary. Thanks, Garth, for kicking [...]

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:01:12 +0000

Sinfonian, that’s fascinating — does the project have a website or any news articles or anything? I’d love to learn more. Where was this?

By: EJ

EJ — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:52:18 +0000

This is a very real issue, even for organic farmers and market gardeners. If we can’t afford to pay our workers minimum wages or have to chose between paying them or ourselves we don’t really have a business- but an expensive, doomed hobby.

Relying on wwofers is not sustainable, either.

By: Sinfonian

Sinfonian — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:12:25 +0000

I must say, I’ve jumped at the chance in previous years to finance farmworker housing. No, not the shacks that were once used as barracks back in WWII now being used to house workers, but new, clean, energy efficient buildings with archtectural design and comfortable amenities. Shame it had to be a 100 unit project, rather than a 1,000, but it was all that could be done by that program.

It is a shame that the only people that make good money from farming is the chemical companies. All the rest suffer in some fashion or another.

Good post. Makes you think!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:55:27 +0000

I fixed them for you. Also some of your spelling and grammar. Readers: I did this with permission. I don’t usually do it. I just can’t stand “Lauren and my plans” or whatever it said.

By: garth

garth — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:51:08 +0000

I fail at making hyperlinks.