[Growwine] Lon Rombough's Suggestion

[Ron Neyvatte]

Cheapest cost is artificial. The true cost of transportation will not be 
known until we run out of fuel. At that point it may be too costly to 
reintroduce the orchards locally. Buy local fruits unless those fruits 
can't be grown here.
Ron

Dolores Smith wrote:

> I'm willing to locate some recipes if others will...it's dangerous to 
> lose food production diversity when change occurs so quickly now and 
> we don't know what will be around the corner in 5 years, even though 
> to the economists basic economic theory supports production shifts to 
> regions where the cheapest cost or other efficiencies arise.  I'm sure 
> I recently heard on a CBC interview that much of our apple juice is 
> coming in from China!
>
>  
>
> Dolores Smith
>
> --- On *Mon, 7/14/08, Lon J. Rombough /<lonrom at hevanet.com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: Lon J. Rombough <lonrom at hevanet.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Growwine] Interesting article re: grapes vs tree
>     fruits in the Okanagan
>     To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
>     Received: Monday, July 14, 2008, 3:21 PM
>
>How about making use of the brainpower here to help?  I'm not in 
>Canada, so I can't do it.
>
>Collect up as many possible apple products as possible, find 
>large-scale recipes for them.  Then prepare a good introductory letter. 
>  Now, combine all that and mail it to the author of the original 
>article and the publication it appeared in,  all the growers' groups, 
>processors, and appropriate governmental agencies.
>Maybe nothing would happen, maybe it would.  Total time spent, using 
>e-mail, probably wouldn't be more than a few hours and it MIGHT 
>actually help.
>Maybe I'm oversimplifying this, but sometimes a nudge is all it takes.
>-Lon Rombough
>Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at 
>http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association 
>"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
>For all other things grape,   http://www.vitisearch.com
>A video about The Grape Grower : 
>http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
>On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:36 AM, melissa lounsbury wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Ryan <ryan.daum at gmail.com>
>> To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
>> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:21:40 PM
>> Subject: [Growwine] Interesting article re: grapes vs tree fruits in 
>> the Okanagan
>>
>>
>> "Apple business is tough
>>
>> B.C. tree fruit growers bristle as onslaught of vineyards sweeps 
>> through their turf"
>>
>>
>> http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=649279
>>
>>
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