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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Farmers in Colorado Struggle with Labor Shortage
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:33:43 -0400

At 11:52 PM 6/8/2008, you wrote:

Farmers in Colorado Struggle with Labor Shortage
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec07/farmers_08-20.html

JOE PISCIOTTA, Vegetable Farmer: We need them. We've got a lot of money invested in that crop up to harvest time, and if we don't have the people here to harvest them -- we've tried local people. We've tried unemployment agencies, and they just -- people just don't do that kind of work.

Perhaps some of those people will change their minds if that's the only work they can get. If I had no job and picking crops was all I could get, you bet I'd do it. But then my first job, at the age of nine, was picking cherries.

I spent four hours picking cherries Sunday afternoon at a nearby pick-your-own orchard, and I have to admit it's a lot harder now!

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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