[Homestead] Broccoli and potato question

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Fri May 2 09:38:34 EDT 2008


On May 2, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Don Bowen wrote:

>> My husband bought 50# of Kennebec seed potatoes. No kidding. When  
>> he came
>> into the house carrying the bag I about fell over.
>
> Last Monday I helped unload about 20,000# of potatoes that should be  
> going
> into the ground today.

I hope your farmer friend is not affected by the California water  
shortages I just read about. California agriculture uses about eighty  
percent of the state's water but the urban areas are using their  
political muscle to get more than their twenty percent. In what looks  
like maybe the third year of inadequate snowpack, the politics will be  
reheating.



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