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Old World Garden Organic Farm Threatened…
This is not a normal post for us – but one we are sad to say happened quite suddenly tonight and that now threatens everything that we have done at Old World Garden Farms. While working on our farm this evening – we were approached by a local farmer that informed us we would need to protect our bees because he was about to spray Round Up to the small 8 acre parcel of land-locked property that is adjacent to our garden and farm. This property owned by a neighbor of ours has only been used for gardening and an open field for the past 5 years – and is not attached to any large farm land. Unknown to us – this farmer had made a deal with the land owner to put in 8 acres of GMO soybeans adjacent to our organic farm, chickens and bees. He also let us know that he would be spraying insecticide in May and that we would need to lock up our bees for that time period too – and told us as the solution we should probably have bought that land too – or we could pay him $4000 for his efforts. [...]
Source: http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2015/04/28/old-world-garden-organic-farm-threatened/
