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Saturday, June 16, 2012
At MOFGA's
Common Ground Education Center
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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
Drinking milk from happy cows ensures great-grandpa’s legacy
Kennebec Journal - 5/20/2012. Op-ed by Liz Soares – My maternal great-grandparents lived in Tiverton, R.I., near the mill city of Fall River, Mass., a neighborhood of working-class homes packed closely together. The 1910 census shows that my grandfather and two great-uncles (also living in the house) were employed at the cotton mill a mile or so away. But, strangely, my great-grandfather was listed as a milkman. When I asked my mother to explain, she said, "He had a cow. He sold the milk."
A billion bees ‘from away’ are essential to Maine’s wild blueberry crop
Bangor Daily News - 5/19/2012. By Tom Walsh – Deblois: The blueberry barrens of Down East Maine are literally buzzing this weekend with anticipation of a bumper crop of wild bush blueberries, given the recent importation of 1 billion honeybees trucked in from away to help ensure a hefty harvest.
Global warming makes syrup taste gross
Grist - 5/18/2012. By Jess Zimmerman – The mild winter played hell with maple syrup production, and a lot of what was produced is only good for off-the-table uses like flavoring chewing tobacco. U.S. production dropped from 30 million pounds of syrup to 18 million pounds of yucky goo.
Chemicals in environment ‘damaging male fertility’
BBC News - 5/18/2012. New evidence has emerged that suggests chemicals routinely found in the environment could be damaging fertility in some men. Researchers tested sheep that had been exposed to chemicals such as cosmetics, detergents and pollutants. They found "abnormalities that could result in low sperm counts in 42% of the animals".
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