NZ supermarkets looking to improve their carbon footprints. A woman is pushing a packed shopping trolley through the store with a sign on the trolley saying 'this vehicle is carbon zero'
A restored #steam-powered #tractor seen near #Uniondale. I’m guessing the #boiler would have been #oil-fired versus #coal - otherwise a ‘fireman’ would have been needed to shovel fuel while the #farmer drove…
@AbandonedAmerica And the thing that many people are not thinking of is how this affects the farmers and the food they produce to feed us all.
Speaking as a former #SmallFarm owner and #farmer and a current suburban #microfarmer the seasons used to be more predictable. You could estimate your crop yields and livestock yields much more effectively, and you had plans in place to deal with heat waves and small droughts or unseasonal rain amounts for a few days or a week.
Now? We (my family) grow more in greenhouses- not because we want to, but because it's the only way we can be assured of actually having successful harvests. And yes, greenhouse growing works, but it is more expensive for us.
I'd love to see you do a series on abandoned and destroyed #farms of all kinds (plants and livestock and poultry). Many people have no idea where their food comes from- they just go to the grocery store or farmer's market and wonder why things are more expensive or out of stock.
Szabadszentkirály, 1954. For today's dip into the Foretpan archives, I have chosen this portrait of a fine looking Hungarian farmer from a small village in south-west Hungary. I imagine he would have been called something like Józsi bácsi (Uncle Joe). Not doubt he has seen a lot over the years.
Most of you will never see one of these because there are very few around. That's you Australians. You people who plan to come here to visit. To see kangaroos, #wallabies and wallaroos, best do it soon before our #farmers#slaughter all of them.
This little 1kg girl has no name yet. She came in an hour ago. She is a sub species of #wallaroo called a Euro (Macropus Robustus Erubescens).
Her mother was #shot by a #farmer who no longer has the balls to smash the tiny babies against his ute. He brings them to me to make himself feel better. He had misidentified her mother as a grey #kangaroo as well, so not only doesn't he care, he can't see properly either.
She brings to 9 the number I'm raising in the house. #Formula 8 times a day. Grain and hay for bigger animals is becoming a struggle. Some are being released this week, but some help would be wonderful.
If someone finds it within their means to #donate $500 which has happened once before, they can name her.
The real cause of skyrocketing food prices is corporate greed and market concentration—and one group of farmers has the receipts.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has submitted data to the House of Commons agriculture committee which details how much retail food prices have risen compared to the prices that farmers receive for their goods.
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Tonight in the #netherlands a fascist #farmer was on national TV claiming that #insects killing farmers were like military personnel sacrificing themselves for the common good.
Farmers are fascist pigs killing #insects and wildlife for the profit of billionaires
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