Today, I read a disturbing figure from the US:
According to the United Fresh Produce Association, American farmers grew 6.3 million pounds of “head lettuce” — iceberg — in 2007, more than twice as much as the next-most-popular lettuce, romaine. In fact, the iceberg total is more than romaine, green leaf, red leaf, spinach and every [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Iceberg Nation
Posted in ACORN News on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
NB Farm Workshops
Posted in ACORN News on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday was the first of our NB farm workshops+potlucks. It was held at Larry Slipp’s farm and featured Charles Hubbard. Charles lives near Amherst, NS, and is a charismatic teacher of dowsing for farm energy.
There were about 15 people in total at the workshop, who all got to try their hand at dowsing–and a [...]
New organic video profile!
Posted in ACORN News on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Organic BBQ?
Posted in ACORN News on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s true.
Today, ACORN held its second annual organic BBQ in Sackville in conjunction with the OK Quoi? and Sappy Music Festival.
The verdict? Huge success and we sold out within an hour!
Selling about 70 homemade veggie burgers and organic beef burgers, with a self serve condiment bar (all organic)–the hungry crowds raved.
ACORN also made about $170 [...]
Organic Field Crop Trials
Posted in ACORN News on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday (July 28th), ACORN co-hosted a tour of the Maritime Organic Grains Network’s field crop trials in NB. The site was near Sussex, at Tom Lask’s farm.
With 235 experimental plots set up to test different cereals’ response to a variety of fertility treatments. The tour was extremely well attended (about 30 people) with an inquisitive crowd who [...]
