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Last Tuesday was the day the Earth’s population reached 7 billion.  I paused long enough to recall that the year 1999 was dubbed “The Year of Six Billion”.  Is Earth’s population exploding so fast that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a milestone which warranted a year’s attention was dealt with in a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac day, or at most a week, this time around?  Or have we become so desensitized?  Or have religio-social taboos captured the media?

Our friend, filmmaker Dave Gardner, is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac still sensitive to the limits of the Earth’s carrying capacity and is never reluctant to confront the growth-pushers.  His new film, GrowthBusters (www.growthbusters.org) is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac just released and will be premiering in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, 11/9.  Max and I will be there.

Colorado Springs is Dave’s home-town and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac what an appropriate place for his odyssey to begin!  Concern for his children’s future encouraged him to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac set-aside a successful business as a commercial filmmaker and to focus on sustainability.  His city’s addiction to “growth everlasting” inspired his decade-long effort to engage the city’s leadership in a dialog about the limits to growth.  This film is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the result of his frustration in being disregarded and marginalized as an creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac extremist.  Now the town fathers may have to take the issue more seriously.

But Dave’s journey doesn’t end at city hall.  He speaks to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac reasonable people around the globe who know that the longer we delay grappling with this creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac issue, the more disruptive the readjustment may be.  People who creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac are not afraid to be educated and who want to participate in crafting solutions; solutions that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac respect and enhance life and lives around the Globe.

When called-upon to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac consider the question, most of us are willing to acknowledge that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac resources are, by definition, limited but then we go about our day-to-day lives as if it creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac were not our concern.  But with the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac projected addition of yet another billion people in just 12 years or creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac so, and with so many of Earth’s life-support systems already reaching capacity, we must make it creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac our concern.  Too many people lack access to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac clean water to drink or to water crops.  Famine and malnutrition are widespread.  We have passed the “peak oil” milestone.  Extreme weather events remind us of the warnings explicated in “An Inconvenient Truth”.  But unlike Al Gore’s didactic, Dave is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a master story-teller who relates his journey an an engaging and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac entertaining manner.

With the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac help of us all, GrowthBusters will be coming soon to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a theatre near you — or to a living room and a clutch of friends, at least.  I strongly urge us all to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac see the film, tell our friends and neighbors about it, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac press the debate wherever we see the growth “solution” being propounded.

The orchards are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a-buzz with the industry of bees and the fragrance of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac blooms is captivating.  Summer seems suddenly upon us after two days of temps in the 80s.  Notwithstanding yesterday’s winds, today’s threatened thunderstorms, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the prediction of yet another frost tomorrow morning, the farm is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac popping with renewed life.  We’ve been creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac feasting on asparagus, our first crop, which is making a comeback after being frozen-back last week.  The sheep are grazing on tender new grass in the vineyard and orchards.  It is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a good time to look up from our work, inhale deeply the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac perfume on the breeze, observe the pollinators at work delving into barely-open blooms, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac revel in the wonders of nature providing for our sustenance and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac our livelihood.

Our gratitude has been mixed, this Spring, with concern and disappointment.  Last week seemed more like winter with several over-night lows in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac mid 20s and the neighborhood a-throb with the roar of wind machines for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac frost control.  This, at a time when the swelling fruit buds were most vulnerable.  My neighbor avers that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac we were within a couple degrees of being wiped-out for the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac season.  The jury’s still out on the damage to our orchard, and there’s still the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac possibility of more frost, but the preliminary report is that we will have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac peaches, apples, and grapes, though I can say with certainty there’ll not be many.  Making what remains all the more dear.

We are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac also grateful for the willingness of our loyal CSA members to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac share, with us, the risks inherent in growing nutritious, local fruit.  We trust that they feel satisfaction in this.  Their reward will include having priority for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the quantity and quality of fruit we will be able to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac bring to market.  Thank you!

This week in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac field, we are completing the commissioning of the micro-sprinkler irrigation and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac beginning the process of re-charging the water table; completing the removal of pruning from creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the orchards in preparation for mowing and spraying; and continuing to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac prune the grapes.  Max is preparing to bottle last fall’s chambourcin rose wine — which promises to be a refreshing summer wine.  And today we bid farewell to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Bob and Sharon who brought three border collies to compete in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Hotchkiss Sheep Camp Dog Trials this weekend and stayed in one of our farm-stay apartment.  We enjoyed having them.

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We are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac currently preparing our Northeast field for planting to pasture and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac hay which, at this point, involves endless rock-picking. When the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac previous owner removed the 4.5 acres of apples from the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac field, she had the it ripped — the customary practice — which brought-up zillions of rocks from creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the size of a Volkswagen to that of a sugar beet. Unfortunately that’s as far as she went with it, so it creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac has been fallow ever since, a sea of holes, impossible to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac irrigate or mow. Now the task of clearing all those rocks falls to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac us. Neighbor Don generously brought over his backhoe and extracted the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac really big, partially buried rocks while I scooped as many as I could haul in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac bucket of the John Deere. The big ones John Deere and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac I pushed into Don’s much larger bucket. It seemed an creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac endless task at first, but the end of this phase is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac in sight.

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No sooner did the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Vernal Equinox herald spring on Sunday than winter decided to reassert herself. The 60-degree days had creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac been enjoying have given way to a colder, stormy, windy pattern. I imagine that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac today’s winds are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac part of the storm system that uprooted mature almond groves in California a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac couple of days ago. And there’s more on the way — tornadoes in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Central Valley yesterday. Snow and rain are in our forecast through the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac weekend. Two days ago the mountains were obscured by airborne dust (read “topsoil”) from the farmers’ fields down-valley. I’m glad we haven’t yet plowed the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Northeast field or our topsoil would be airborne too.

We have 3 newborn lambs on the farm! The first was born 2 weeks ago as a single and we call her “Newby”; twins followed 10 days ago. Two more ewes appear ready to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac birth in the next few days. Newby, unfortunately, is rejected by her mom, so we have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac to restrain the mom so Newby can nurse. This we have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac to do every 4 hours, so Max and I take turns with the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac midnight feeding. We are very grateful for the sheep barn that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Steph and Ben completed in January!

Snowy, our 5-month-old Great Pyrenees guard dog is already enormous! She wants to play at all times and doesn’t know her size and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac strength, so we are no longer keeping her with the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac sheep during lambing. Undaunted, she stands guard at a strategic vantage point on the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac dam and warns intruders with her characteristic deep bark. A few mornings ago I awakened to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac hear a coyote cry nearby, bolted out of bed and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac into clothes, and by the time I was out the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac door, Snowy was on the job barking and patrolling. It is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac said that the sheer magnitude of these majestic beasts is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac enough to dissuade any nosey predator and it seems to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac be working out that way.

Snowy is also very adept at finding goose eggs — which they will lay at any convenient sheltered outdoor spot.  So we have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac to be quick to beat her to them as she finds them fun to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac throw and pounce upon and delicious eating once she manages to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac break the tough shell.

With the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac organic certification, biodynamic record-keeping, lambing, and rock picking behind us, we will finally turn our attention to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac CSA recruiting. The apples are recently pruned and the peaches and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac grapes appear to have fared the cold winter better than expected (so far!). So, dear customers, don’t loose hope: there will be creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac fruit and there will be ample opportunity to reserve your fruit-share. We’re just a little behind, as usual.

(Cancun, 7 December 2010) Thousands of people affected by and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac concerned for the destruction of the environment, farmers, landless peasants, indigenous people and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac activists of all social sectors will take to the streets in Cancun as well as in other parts of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac world as part of La Via Campesina’s Global Day of Action for Climate Justice on December 7.

This march which will take place in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac backdrop of the Forum for Life, Social and Environmental Justice in Cancun, Mexico and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac has as its main slogan “Peasants cool the planet”. This message summarizes the peoples’ proposal to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac solve the climate crisis and is also reflected in the resolutions that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac emerged from the peoples’ summit held in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
With colorful flags, hats, signs, posters, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac lots of music the protesters will announce their opposition to the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac mechanisms being imposed in COP 16 such as the false solutions of carbon markets, REDD, agrofuels and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac geoengineering being imposed on the peoples of the world.

The march will leave at 9:00 am creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac from the Jacinto Canek Sports Center (Unidad Deportiva Jacinto Canek) where creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac roughly 10,000 people are expected to march across the main streets of downtown Cancun. This action is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac part of the thousands of activities to be performed worldwide as La Via Campesina’s “thousands of Cancun’s.” Actions will happen in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac in the United States and Canada. The actions include public meetings, forums and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac sit-in’s in Korea, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Nepal, Turkey, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac mass actions in India, Argentina, Indonesia, El Salvador, the Philippines and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Mexico. It is estimated that these actions and events will bring together more than creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac 1 million people.

The popular power generated through these actions is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac aimed at bringing sustainable and just solutions to solve the climate crisis. In this creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac context, the negotiations of COP 16 can be seen in their true perspective: sand throwing in our eyes for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac corporate profit rather than the hard decision making needed for social and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac environmental justice.

Communication team CLOC/Via Campesina
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By Dave Murphy

After nearly two years of heated debate and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac countless food related illnesses, the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) passed in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Senate on Tuesday morning by a wide bipartisan margin of 73 to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac 25, including 15 Republicans.

It was a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac remarkable victory for American consumers and the growing local, sustainable food movement.

Despite partisan gridlock, intense industry opposition, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a Tea Party campaign of misinformation, the Senate appeared to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac have done the right thing for both consumer protection and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac family size farms in passing a bill that included a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac few modest exemptions for small-scale farmers engaged in direct sales of local foods won in a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac series of last minute amendments.

As per usual when creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac legislation is made in Congress, industrial agriculture sets the rules and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac these minor protections are the only thing standing between the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac smallest family farmers and expensive new regulations that could drive them out of business.

But now a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac minor parliamentary mistake threatens this important victory for consumers and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac family farmers. The Senate’s violation of an creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac overlooked constitutional provision requiring that taxes originate in the House of Representatives has creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac stalled the legislation in the House.

Industrial agriculture lobbyists and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac front groups funded by agribusiness are now using this procedural error to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac try to kill the new food safety bill or, even worse, to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac strip the hard-won farmer protection provisions from the bill entirely.

Almost as soon as an creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac anonymous Republican Senate staffers tipped off Roll Call late Tuesday evening about the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac gaffe, Big Ag flacks and their supporters in Congress have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac been tripping over themselves to once more make their failed and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac dangerous case for why a common sense amendment sponsored by Senator John Tester (D-MT), the only organic farmer in the U.S. Senate, must be killed.

Even after the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Peanut Corporation of America fiasco of last year and the massive egg recall from creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac this past summer, members of Congress and the elite class of agribusiness lobbyists continue to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac ignore the elephant in the room regarding food safety and agricultural production, which as most informed citizens know is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac concentration.

It would be laughable if it weren’t so shameful to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac watch members of the Democratic Party like Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) and Jim Costa (D-CA) gush at the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac chance to take advantage of this parliamentary mistake to trample the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac opportunities for true family farmers into the ground.

Yesterday, Rep. Cardoza, who creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac sits on the House Agriculture Committee and represents California’s farm-rich San Joaquin Valley could barely contain his glee over the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac opportunity to strip the Tester amendment from the bill.

Cardoza went as far as calling the Tester amendment an “abomination” (very strong word folks for something that protects family farmers) and continued saying, “A small farm can creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac devastate the industry as easily as a big farm.”

It’s hard to tell if Rep. Cardoza is just stupid or corrupt.

Fortunately, a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac quick look at political donations at Opensecrets.org offers some insight. During the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac 2010 election cycle, three of the top five industries donating to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Rep Cardoza’s campaign were from the agricultural sector, including more than $103,000 from the “Crop Production & Basic Processing” industry - the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac number one industry paying for his re-election and the very people who creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac are now demanding that Tester’s modest farmer protection provisions be killed.

This fact should not be creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac lost on anyone, because this is how industrial agriculture has creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac not only taken over food production in the U.S., driving farmers off the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac land, fattening Americans and contaminating our food, but it is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac also how corporate agribusiness has corrupted our democracy.

And if there’s one thing that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Americans are rapidly becoming aware of, it is the fact that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac family farmers don’t kill people, but greed, excessive corporate power, dangerous corporate concentration and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac corruption within federal agencies do.

Failure to pass the food safety bill without the Tester and Manager’s amendments, which are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac minor stopgap provisions to protect a tiny, but economically vibrant sector of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac agricultural economy would be a travesty of both justice and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac democracy.

If House Democrats and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Senate Republicans cannot put aside bitter partisan bickering to put health and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac safety of American citizens over giant corporate interests with the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac passage of this bill, then they deserve to reap the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac consequences at the ballot box.

It’s time for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Democrats and Republicans to show America what they stand for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac – huge corporations or creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac everyday Americans. The Food Safety Modernization Act with the Tester amendment included is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a perfect litmus test to see if they will stand up for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the hopes and dreams of the little guy in this country or creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac if they will continue down the long road of rewarding concentrated wealth.

Millions of Americans are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac watching and they will be organized to vote in 2012.

(Dave Murphy is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the founder and Executive Director of Food Democracy Now!, a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac grassroots community of over 150,000 Americans dedicated to building a sustainable food system that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac protects our natural environment, sustains farmers and nourishes families.)

On Thanksgiving morning I slipped out of bed at 5:00 to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the sound of my neighbor’s wind machine firing-up — a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac serious frost protection measure seldom employed during the dormant season.  Big surprise:  the predicted low was around +2F.  I hustled over to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the office where the wireless thermometer read -8F.  Whoa!  The recent Extension Service e-alert had rated -5F  as doing significant damage to dormant peach buds.  Needless to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac say, I added the din of our two machines and was relieved that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac by the time I returned to the office the thermometer read +1F, the previous temp at the top of the barn.  Or had the digital face previously read -0.8F? my doubting mind questioned.  And why weren’t there any others running in the neighborhood?  But why would Claudio run his?  (See my blog post from 5/7/2010 for further discussion on this topic.)  But anyway, the analog thermometer in the vineyard showed -4F — so no harm done in any event.

Our Thanksgiving guests, Aniela and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Joe, having arrived the night before, were unprepared to have their morning rest so rudely interrupted.  But they were game and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Joe, who in addition to braving I-70 from Denver on T-giving eve had creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac driven down from Jackson Hole on Tuesday over sketchy roads, so he managed to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac sleep-in.  After this creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac nerve-wracking start, our turkey day unfolded in a lovely, laid-back sorta way.  Joe had creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac brought with him his state-of-the-art Fiscars splitting axe so he split logs as I bucked them into stove lengths and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac before lunch we had 1/4 cord stacked beside the office door.

Max and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Aniela, meanwhile, roasted peppers on the grill, filling the chill air with delicious autumn fragrances.  Some of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac peppers found their way into a delicious squash soup for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a light lunch before we turned to preparations for the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac feast:  The turkey, with quinoa stuffing, had, of course, gone into the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac oven first thing in the morning.  It was a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac fresh, never-frozen bird, raised across the valley on The Living Farm, that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac our friend Karla had “processed” on Monday.  To this creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac we added an acorn squash casserole; mashed purple viking potatoes, grilled root vegetables, green beans with almonds; salad; and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac cranberry relish.  OK, not everything was local (cranberries and almonds don’t grow here) but most food was from creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the farm or our Valley and almost entirely organic.

We capped the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac evening with a game of Trivial Pursuit in which Aniela and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Joe were off to an early start and looked sure to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac whoop Max and Wink.  But a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac learning curve, fate, and the throw of the die came down for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the underdogs and when we finally went to bed it was tied with both of us crisscrossing the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac winner’s circle.  The game refused to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac be decided even with the renewed energies of the AM so we finally settled on a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac draw so we could get on with the day.  Getting on with the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac day included work on the new sheep barn below the dam.  Under Aniela’s supervision and Joe’s expert tractor skills, much was accomplished and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Wink is greatly encouraged.  Since then creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac we have raised two of the three lintel beams and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the barn is taking shape.

La Via Campesinas message to the CFS:

Sustainable peasant and family farm agriculture can feed the world!
(Rome, October 11, 2010) With the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac number of hungry people in the world at almost 1 billion, it creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac is clear that the current food system blatantly fails in providing healthy and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac adequate food for all. The recent increase in land grabbing is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac an integral part of the dominant corporate agribusiness model with large-scale industrial monocultures. This system has creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac caused climate change and allows speculation on food for the benefit of a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac small minority.

Today the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac United Nations started in Rome. La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, wants to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac take advantage of this occasion to reiterate that sustainable peasant and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac family farm agriculture can feed the world, as mentioned in our newest publication.
This also means that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the solutions reside in changing our food system to a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac system within the framework of food sovereignty that has sustaibable family farming at its centre.
Small food producers are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac already feeding a huge amount of people, using smaller plots of land and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac working in a sustainable way.
More and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac more actors, such as stated in the IAASTD report recognise that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac small-scale sustainable farming is the way to find sustainable solutions to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac this terrible violation of the human right to food.
The CFS should put the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac right to food at the heart of the global food and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac agricultural governance and international institutions and governments should be made accountable regarding their efforts to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac implement this right. The points of view of civil society organisations directly affected by the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac food crisis should constitute the basis for the development of solutions. La Via Campesina will be creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac present at the CFS to provide a follow-up to the discussions and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac propose real solutions.

July 2, 2010. Yesterday was a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac milestone for Mesa Winds Farm. Our diligent and hard-working “Young Farmers” Becky, Lindsay, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Trevor, completed the first-pass pruning of our vineyards. This is the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac first year that we didn’t have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac to resort to contract workers to get the job done. They proved, “Yes, we can”. We celebrated their hard work with a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac mostly-local, all-organic barbeque of ribs, potatoes au gratin, baked beans, salad, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac rhubarb cherry crisp.

On the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac web site, Max has introduced you to our Babydoll Southdown sheep. In addition to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac cute, and their traditional roles as wool and meat providers, they will also play an creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac important role in maintaining soil fertility and controlling weeds and cover crops in our vineyards. But why won’t they eat the grape leaves, we ask? So, while our young farmers sweated-out the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac last rows in the Pinot Gris, Max and I have been creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac working with our CSU Extension Agent, Robbie Baird Levalley, to train the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac sheep what NOT to eat.

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A “heritage breed”, Babydoll Southdowns are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the breed of choice for this work because of their diminutive size which allows them to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac move about between rows and under the trellis wires. They seem intelligent enough to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac readily grasp this training and, in addition, they are known for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac their excellent quality fleece, comparable to Merino, and for delicious meat. We are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac very excited by this addition to our agro-ecology.

Friday, May 7, 2:00 AM.  The alarm thermometer roused me half-an-hour ago at 30 degrees. The temp at the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac top of the barn was 35. No need to belabor the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac decision this morning. Critical temp is 29 for the fruit that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac remains after last week’s freeze. Five degrees of inversion, sky is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac clear, no wind, neighbors’ machines already roaring.

Now I’m back in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac cabin, listening to my machines chop the air, sipping tea, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac watching the thermometer continue to fall. Some more data: the thermometers at the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac CSU Ag Experiment Station (accessed by phone, about a mile away and several hundred feet lower) are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a couple degrees warmer and showing the same spread. The humidity is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac 33% which sets the dew point at 4 degrees (see www.dpcalc.org) — I already knew we weren’t close to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the dew point as my shoes came back dry from the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac walk to the wind machines. No future in relying on this creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac heat source.

Last Friday night’s freeze was the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac coldest it has been since then. But Saturday and Sunday nights were similar nail-biters: Saturday went down to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac 30 and Sunday to 32. Both nights my neighbors (or some of them) ran their wind machines and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac both nights I restrained myself from the temptation to follow the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac crowd. I sat awake by the wood stove in the wee hours, charting the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac mercuries (actually digitals), studying the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac skies for portents, and in the end resolved to stick to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the data.At times like these I like to remind myself of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac time that, on our first spring on Mesa Winds, I let the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac propane supply in one machine run low. Too late to order a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac delivery I realized we were in for another cold night and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac I would be unable to run our frost protection. Max was furious. I lay awake that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac night listening to every wind machine in Delta County chop the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac air and feeling the chill from the other side of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac bed. I still can’t explain why we were spared the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac severity of the freeze that hit our neighbors that night. Was it creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the dew point, the wind chill, or beginner’s blind luck? Anyway, I was redeemed and grateful.

So, the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac observation that the mercury seemed to rise after I turned off the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac machines on Friday night doesn’t come as a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac total surprise. And such events make for more complicated judgements and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac less sleep. On Saturday and Sunday nights my data was easier to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac trust: on neither night did we reach the critical temperature, on both nights I couldn’t discern an creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac inversion, one night there was a bit too much wind, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac another an ample cloud cover.

Be that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac as it may, the proof is in the pudding: Jack Frost did a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac pretty aggressive job of thinning for us. But we DO still have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a crop. We’re still not out of the woods, though, and tonight’s low is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac forecast at 26. The Crest Haven peaches fared better than the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac Red Globes, likely because they mature later and were, therefore, at an creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac earlier, less vulnerable stage. There are more viable buds up high in the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac trees than low, reflecting the colder temps near the ground (an inversion).

The Golden Delicious apples fared better than creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the Galas both because they are a later variety and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac because they are a taller tree.  On the Galas that we sampled, about 40% of the clusters (a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac normal cluster has 5 or 6 blossoms, each with the capacity to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac become an apple) has only one or two viable buds.  Only the buds that hadn’t yet opened were still viable. This is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac more or less the rate we’d want to thin-to; the difficulty being that Jack Frost doesn’t necessarily distribute his handiwork evenly in the tree. We’ll still be creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac hand-thinning to even-out the crop-load but will not be chemical thinning this creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac year — an eventuality that I find most agreeable.

I will conclude by saying that I hope this is the last you’ll have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac to endure my spring frost stories this year and I trust, with the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac help of the wind machines, that we’ll have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a crop. We can tell that our customers are beginning to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac look forward to local fruit season as each mail brings more CSA member sign-ups. Thank you! We look forward to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac seeing you at the market and in the mean time, keep in touch through the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac web site and this blog. Thanks for paying attention!

May Day, 2010.  Last night (Friday) was the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac second in what is forecast to be a series of four nights in which sub-freezing temperatures threaten our nascent fruit buds, potentially reducing our harvest. This is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a strong possibility every spring as our peaches, apples, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac grapes mature from bud-swell through full bloom to fruit set. Our two OrchardRite wind machines are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac our only defense against this threat. The closer a particular bud is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac to bloom, the more vulnerable it is to freezing. The critical temperature for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac both apples and peaches at the present stage is about 27 degrees. On Thursday night the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac thermometer went down to 25 and stayed there for several hours. I reproduce below my decision-process from creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac April 30. Next I’ll reproduce my story from last night. Suffice to say I’ve not been getting much sleep recently.

April 30, 2010, 11:30 PM.  I’m awake, sitting by the warm wood stove, listening to my neighbors’ wind machines flog the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac air, struggling to find a modicum of warm air to stir into the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac frigid air mass that envelops Rogers Mesa. Why don’t I just turn mine on instead of belaboring this creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac dilemma as I do every year at about this time.  I review the considerations:
1.  At each stage of development the fruit buds have “critical temperatures” at which 10% of buds will be killed (thinning the crop) and a lower temperature at which 90% will be killed (a disaster).  The further along they are, the less cold they will tolerate.  For our peaches in full bloom these temperatures are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac 27oF and 24oF, respectively.  My wireless thermometer stands at 27.3.  It will not be likely to rise again until 8 AM — this is a long period of cold.
2.  These values are gross generalizations.  Buds will withstand lower temps for shorter duration and vice versa.  Also, only some of our buds are at Stage 6, full bloom.  Other buds on the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac same tree which are at lower stages are good to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac lower temps: 26/21 or even 25/15.
3.  The wind machine is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a giant fan on a tower which spins and rotates at the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac same time.  During spring frost events there is often a temperature inversion (warmer air above).  By stirring the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac air it is possible to warm the air at fruit level a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac couple of degrees.  Sometimes this is all it takes to save the crop.  Sometimes it is “fruitless.”  I have creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a wireless thermometer at crop height and one at the top of the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac barn in an effort to measure the amount of inversion.  Right now the spread is 26.4 x 27.8.  I’m looking for at least a 2 degree spread.
4.  Inversions occur under clear skies.  Cloud-cover acts as a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac blanket, preventing the relatively warm air from escaping.  Just when creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac my neighbors turned on their machines a high cloud-cover moved in and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the temperatures stabilized at 27 x 28.  Now the cloud has moved off and the temp is again falling — faster at fruit level than above.  This is an indication that radiational cooling is in effect.  The 2 degree spread will likely soon be reached.
5.  Absolute temperature is not the only effect.  When the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac dew point is reached, water vapor turns to liquid and gives off heat.  When the liquid freezes it gives off more heat.  When the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac dew point is close to the critical temperature, it is authoritatively said that creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac there is nothing we can do that will be as effective at saving the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac fruit.  Dew point is calculated from humidity and temperature.  Tonight it is 25 oF.  Right now the temp spread is 25.5 x 27.3.   Would the wind machine simply dissipate this ephemeral heat?  How long does the heat last without wind?
6.  If the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac cold is the result of a cold-air-mass rather than radiational cooling under clear skies, there is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac no point in stirring the air around.  Tonight’s cold is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac on the heals of a cold front, but is there also radiational cooling taking place?
7.  So what’s the hesitation?  Cost vs effectiveness.  I’ve just outlined the effectiveness issues.  As for creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac cost, the machine is driven by a propane-fired 440 cu in Chevy V-8, industrial engine.  It operates at full throttle and guzzles fuel.  It is not to be run unnecessarily.
8.  There is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac no point in running the machine if there is any wind: the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac wind is doing the stirring and, since the fan is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a giant gyroscope that is constantly reorienting itself relative to creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the wind, it could blow apart under the stress of moving through too strong a creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac wind with catastrophic results to the $20K machine and the farmer.  At the first hint of wind — indicated by intensification of the helicopter-throb of the rotor — I should hurry out and turn it off.

It’s 12:10 AM.  Spread is 25.2 x 27.1.  Sky is clear and calm.  I still have my doubts but I’m heading out to do my part to stir the air.  Call it giving-in to peer pressure.

Forty-five minutes, 2 wind machine start-ups, and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac a snow-sparkling walk under the full moon later and I’m back at the fire.  Dew point has creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac certainly been reached as the towers and blades are coated in frost which blows off when creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac spinning begins.  Checking the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac sky I see that another bank of high clouds is moving-in from creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac the west.  The temp spread is now 25.3 x 26.2.  Is the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac narrower spread the result of the cloud cover or the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac wind machine?  I hear the rotors throbbing as they chop their way through the wind.  I’m surrounded by noise.  The cabin shakes in time to the throb.  The pitch changes with the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac orientation to the wind and the wind velocity.  Is there wind with the cloud bank?  Or is it the wind we are generating?  Should I contemplate turning off the machine?  Can I go to sleep with these questions on my mind?  Spread is now 25.5 x 26.6.  It’s warming-up?

Later.  The cloud cover is not unbroken.  In the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac West it seems clearer despite the forecast that calls for 60% chance of snow.  Precip would obviate the wind machine.  Dilemma.  I think I’ll crawl my weary body and creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac mind into the warm bed and try to forget that there are creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac no certain answers.  Any major change will likely wake me — that is if am able to sleep at all in this racket… and with all these questions…

Morning after.  I managed four hours sleep.  In the dreary dawn there is an unbroken thin overcast blanket.  The temp spread has all but disappeared and stands at 25.5.  There’s no reason to keep the machines sucking down fuel.  At 6:15 I begin the process of turning them off.  By the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac time I get back to the cabin half-an-hour later the thermometer is creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac at 27 and trending upward.  This raises the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac question: Did the wind machines, in the absence of a temperature gradient, actually suppress the creative suite 5.5 design premium sn keygen mac temp?  Worse than for naught, actually counter-productive.