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OKIsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:39 PM Original message |
California farms lose main water source to drought |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. We need to plant gardens. |
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OKIsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It's difficult to grow vegetables in a drought |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Good idea. CA's rainy season is March - May ..let's hope there is lots of rain. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Not quite |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 02:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. I stand corrected. But I remember one of our worst droughts that we made up as the rain came down in |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 02:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Rain barrels, old bathtubs - anything to gather/store water |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Sustainable agriculture for all |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. Unemployment is already in the double digits here |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. The answer lies in the direction of Hydroponics |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
7. How do they simply starve a source of American food? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:50 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I'm not sure what you mean |
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excess_3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. eat local |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 02:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Uh. . . yeah -- unless of course your local food *is* California grown. . . |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 02:19 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. alot more is grown in CA than strawberries and watermelon. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-24-09 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
15. ZPG. Zero population growth. |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-24-09 03:41 AM Response to Original message |
16. So, |
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