Archive for October, 2008
Technical Ooops!!
October 12th, 2008 | Author: Scribhneoir
Hi All, sorry for disappearing but I had problems beyond my control. It seems that the server my blog was hosted on went belly up – they just disappeared overnight last week! I have no idea what happened but my freind who put up this site for me on a server he was using lost all his websites, including those of some clients – ouch! It is considered odd in cyber land for a server to not be able to supply back-up of the sites stored on their servers but that is what happened – no back-up available. That is not too bad for me but I m sure that must have been really bad for some people – I feel for them! I will be able to put up a few pieces that I wrote but i cannot remember what the lovely theme I was using is so I will search again – exciting really, new beginnings and all that…
I hope you are all well and will come back sometime for a wee read and see what exciting new things I can find to make my wee blog pretty again…
Monstrous Monsanto
October 1st, 2008 | Author: Scribhneoir
I only found out this evening that Monsanto has bought up a huge seed company, Seminis, Inc., a leading Vegetable and Fruit Seed Company, making Monsanto the owners of the seed suppliers for 40% of American vegetable seed customers and 20% of the global customer base.
That’s pretty scary news and I only found out because I was browsing the web and happened on the story and this is a link to the details. I am rather surprised that I have not heard the news through the Irish media, it is an important issue.
I haven’t fully thought through the implications of this news yet or how I feel about Monsanto owning such an important resource and will probably write about this in the future.
It is so important that we save our own seeds and support people like Seedsavers in Scarriff in Co. Clare. We are planning to grow some food on our land next year, having let the garden go wild for a few years and we will be making a special effort to only use seed that grows plants which we can collect further seed from. You can read a post about doing just that in Australia, check out this link here. Another good thing to do is talk to other gardeners and swap seeds with people in your locality, that way the plants will be best suited to your weather conditions.
Food for thought…
Posted in Community, Ireland, Co Leitrim, Sustainability | 
Tags: Food, Gardening, Healthy stuff | 
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