Old99Farm Market:  Energy Update: 2015 could be it

Richard Heinberg has been researching and chronicling the consequences and trends of fossil fuel, Fossil Sunlight some call it, for 17 years now.

I started tuning in around 2003, when the term ‘Peak Oil’ was still new. That was 12 years ago.

Here is a recent short essay by Heinberg, posted at http://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-02-02/after-the-peak, from which I append two extensive quotes (in the likely event you don’t go read the whole thing). He poses three questions to focus our attention, included below.

Ironically, just as the rate of the world’s liquid fuels production may be about to crest the curve, we’re hearing that warnings of peak oil were wrongheaded all along. The world is in the midst of a supply glut and prices are declining, tireless resource optimists remind us. Surely this disproves those pessimistic prophets of peril! However, as long-time peakist commentator Ron Patterson notes:

Peak oil will be the point in time when more oil is produced than has ever been produced in the history of the world, or ever will be in the future of the world. It is far more likely that this period will be thought of as a time of an oil glut rather than a time of an oil shortage.

Within a couple of years, those of us who have spent most of the past two decades warning about the approaching peak may see vindication by data, if not by public opinion.

If our main goal during the past 17 years was to alert the world about looming challenges, now it is to foster adaptation to fundamental shifts that are currently under way. The questions that need exploration now are:

• How can we help build resilience throughout society, starting locally, assuming we will have little or no access to the reins of national policy?
• How can we help society adapt to climate change while building a zero-emissions energy infrastructure?
• How can we help adapt society’s energy consumption to the quantities and qualities of energy that renewable sources will actually be able to provide?

We have to assume that this work will have to be undertaken in the midst of accelerating economic decay, ecological disruption, and periodic crises—far from ideal operating conditions.

On the other hand, there is the possibility that crisis could act in our favor. As their routines and expectations are disturbed, many people may be open to new explanations of their predicament and to new behaviors to help them adapt to energy and monetary poverty. Our challenge will be to frame unfolding events persuasively in ecological terms (energy, habitat, population) rather than conventional political terms (good guys, bad guys), and to offer practical solutions to the burgeoning everyday problems of survival—solutions that reduce ecological strains rather than worsening them. Our goal should not be to preserve industrial societies or middle-class lifestyles as we have known them (that’s impossible anyway), but to offer a “prosperous way down,” as Howard Odum put it, while preserving whatever cultural goods that can be salvaged and that deserve the effort.

As with our recent efforts to warn society about peak oil, there is no guarantee of success. But it’s what needs doing.

Champaign, OH:  Last Call!

You have 10 minutes!!

Rock and Roll those orders!

Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm week of Feb 1st 2015

We had an energizing time at the Guelph Organic Conference last weekend, taking in new ideas about permaculture farms, growing vegetables for seed, biodynamic farming, farm family succession, and much more.

We’re in the ‘persephone’ months when daylight is less than 10 hours a day, but it’s about over; sunrise now is 7:33 and sundown is 5:34. Plants will starting growing in the greenhouse and I’ll soon have greens again.

Till then the offerings are root crops, squashes, eggs and meats.

Healthy eating
Ian and Camelia

Champaign, OH:  The Tuesday Count Down!

I am just groovin’ in to tell you that it is just after 8pm, Tuesday evening, and you have until 10pm, tonight, to get your orders in!

Get organized, gather your thoughts, and don’t be late…sad customers who miss the deadline make us so very sad!

I have had a large, hectic day, so I am keeping it all short and sweet, tonight.

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Russellville Community Market:  RCM Order Reminder

Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be closing for orders tonight at 10:00 p.m. Get your orders in soon!

Happy ordering!

We hope to see you on Thursday for the market pick-up!

Check out our Facebook page for great info on local foods issues and upcoming events.
Be sure to click on the “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page to get automatic updates. Thanks!

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.
Russellville Community Market

Citrus County Locally Grown:  New Grower Lists Lettuce

MARKET NEWS

NEW GROWER JOINS US

ARBOR TRAILS NURSERY, Inverness, FL

********Red Leaf Lettuce****************************Red Bok Choy*********

ARBOR TRAILS NURSERY, Inverness, FL
Has joined the Citrus County Locally Grown On-Line Farmers Market. Their produce is grown hydroponically.
Some of the lettuce weigh 1 1/2 – 2Lbs and crisp too. They come with roots, so keep the roots moist to keep them fresh.
Check out the:
Green Leaf Lettuce
Green Butter Crunch
Red Leaf Lettuce
Red Bok Choy
Green Bok Choy

Want to add to your order, just place another. Our computers take care of matters and add your orders together.

3 Rock Farm

Everything is grown organically, from organic, NON-GMO seeds, here on the farm in Dunnellon:

MICROGREENS

Microgreens contain considerably higher levels of vitamins and carotenoids— up to five times greater than their mature plant counterparts.

Put some Microgreens in soups, salads and sandwiches and add some extra nutrients today!
Variety of Flavors

*Arugula
*Bok Choy
*Mild Brassica Mix
*Mustard
*Spicy Brassica Mix

JAMS and JELLIES

These can be found in Pantry Items on the Categories

*Blueberry
*Strawberry Jam
*Tangerine Ginger Jelly
*Orange Tangerine
*Marmalade
*Spicy Peach Ginger (This one is HOT – made with Datil Peppers)
*Spicy Red Pepper

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Want to add to your order, just place another. Our computers take care of matters and add your orders together.

This market, Citrus County Locally Grown, will remain open for orders until 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Pickup is Thursday February 5, 2015

Our growers thank you for supporting local growers and businesses. Your orders make a real difference

Thank you for supporting your On-Line Farmers Market. Your purchases have made a difference to many families

Your CCLG Team

THE MARKET IS OPEN
The link below will take you there.

www.citruscounty.locallygrown.net/.*

Middle Tennessee Locally Grown:  Manchester Locally Grown market - Just a Short Time Left to Order!

aaaaaaa:  Produce Availability Feb 1-8

Martin's Farmstand:  Winter Work

Hello,
We have printed another edition of the Bugle which is a little magazine that my family puts out. Besides the print edition, it is also online at
www.thebugle.martins4u.com
We hope you enjoy it.

On the farm each season has its natural work and harvests. Traditionally farmers gave attention to their woodlots in the winter. I have been working at thinning my sugarbush so the trees get more light and grow nice and healthy. This has resulted in a huge pile of firewood and logs. If anybody needs hardwood lumber contact Luray 268-0309 we have a lot for sale at reasonable prices. Have you ever wondered if it makes much differance if you thin carrots in the garden or trees in your woodlot. The answer is that it does. The garden vegetables such as carrots and lettuce get much bigger. Look at the differance if a bed only gets half done and then not finished for a few weeks. Weed control is also important for this reason. Over at my Dads farm we thinned part a hill we call “Stone Hill” 25 years ago. It had a dense stand of young pole sized maple. It was 15 years before we returned to finish the rest. The trees that were thinned on time are twice a big as the trees on the other section.

So much of life is like this. Sometimes God removes things that we love and it appears like trouble to us but God is preparing us. We do well to love God and relax in such events. God is good. Daniel

CLG:  Tuesday Reminder - Market Closes Tonight at 10pm.

Hello Friends,
There’s still time to place your order for pickup on Friday, February 6th. The market closes TONIGHT around 10pm.

How to contact us:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…

Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039

Email: Steve – kirp1968@sbcglobal.net

Our Website:

www.conway.locallygrown.net

On Twitter: @conwaygrown

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conway-Locally-Grown/146991555352846