Dozens of local residents packed Columbia’s historic Watch and Clock Museum yesterday to talk about some things that are important to them in their community. Front and center was a recent ordinance enacted by Borough Council to approve “a commercial revolving loan program” where borough money is loaned to private business owners. This contentious policy, […]
Continue ReadingKeeping Monsanto Out of Your Home Garden We know that the global biotech company Monsanto does some crazy things with nature – they’ve been in the public eye for years and years. But some conscientious gardeners don’t know exactly how many of the smaller seed companies have been bought up by this corporate giant, and […]
Continue ReadingColumbia Borough Council Violating the State Sunshine Act? Columbia borough’s ongoing struggle with residents who want change is a dramatic example of how different readings of Pennsylvania open meetings laws often cause problems in real life. An LNP story June 13 shows another Columbia Borough vote is at issue – reporter Chris Courogen characterizes the […]
Continue ReadingBad Times for the American Farmer: Climate, Trade Conflict a One-Two Punch This year, there are new concerns about how crops will fare overall, due to a combination of factors, some natural, and others man-made: some even seem to have been made mostly by one man! First there’s the climate reality and the conditions that […]
Continue ReadingYou Are Labor! *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer When we really talk frankly about our freedoms as Americans, we run into some pretty tricky semantic problems. One of the absolute worst ones is trying to talk about the interests of labor in an age where people don’t really understand what it means to stick up […]
Continue ReadingRaise the Bail – Don’t Tell the Defense!! *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer As we’re finally starting to take a clearer-eyed look at the U.S. criminal justice system after a legacy of punitive excess: the enormously expensive and devastating war on drugs that took place throughout the last few decades and extremely punitive three strikes […]
Continue ReadingThe George Powell Case: False Testimony and Bad Science Got a Man 28 Years *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer Since 2009, Texas native Georgia Powell remains locked up for a crime he says he didn’t commit – robbing a local Killeen, Texas 7-Eleven store. However, last month, Powell won the right to a new trial, […]
Continue ReadingTheft Is Just One Problem with Pennsylvania’s Growing Hemp Industry *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer The small town of Honeybrook, Pennsylvania isn’t a big manufacturing hub or a large local economy, but it is a center for farmers who grow all kinds of crops in the lush land in the surrounding Chester County area. Now […]
Continue ReadingIn reading the Lancaster Farming paper today, March 12, 2017. I came across an article about a man, Mike Brown, of Pitspone Farm that has developed a exotic berry plant and fruit business in his backyard in Kendall Park,New Jersey. In his small be it ⅓ acre suburban farm he is able to generate $20,000 […]
Continue ReadingWeather Modification and the freak spring weather 2017 Here in the eastern United States the weather of the last weeks has been totally out of character and in fact very Bi- polar. With temperatures in the 60’s and micro weather events including several severe horizontal wind events and suspected tornadoes. The plant and animal environment […]
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