World Organic News - Mrjonmoore - Conservation Farming, Permaculture, Organic Gardening, Organic Farming, Climate Change.

Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here Agroecology: A Multifacted Solution | The Green Economist http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-e8p   Eating from the Garden | smallholding dreams http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-e9U   Grid Storage Reality | Power For USA http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ea1 **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 6th of February 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   The blog  smallholding dreams brings us a post: Eating from the Garden. This post addresses the alleged shortage in the UK of courgettes, that’s zucchinis for everyone outside France and the UK and Iceberg lettuces.   Quote: Apparently, there is a shortage of iceberg lettuce and courgettes in the shops  – um duh of course there is, it is winter. Seriously people, what happened to eating seasonal, local food? End Quote.   What indeed? We had a similar situation here during the drought of 80-85 when farmers weren’t able to feed themselves let alone their stock. This was an “ah ha”  moment for me. Somewhere between settlement and th