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[Livingontheland] Cheap apples

From: Arzeena Hamir <arzeenahamir@shaw.ca>
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Cheap apples
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:15:50 -0700

Hi all,

Our apple growers in the BC Okanagan are living through quite a crisis this year. Apples are selling for 12 cents a pound. Wondering if there's a similar situation on the other side of the border.

No wonder everyone's ripping out their apple orchards and planting wine grapes.

Arzeena Hamir MSc. P.Ag.
Coordinator
Richmond Food Security Society
http://richmondfoodsecurity.org
coordinator@richmondfoodsecurity.org
http://twitter.com/arzeena

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