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阿尔伯塔一个种土豆的农民社区组织为了呼吁民众抗拒中国食物，保护本地农产品，于本周六发起免费派送45,000公斤土豆的活动，令主办方没有想到的是，消息传出之后，数千人从四面八方开车涌来，1,000多辆汽车在公路上排 ...) S( M& a& H% u/ x: A, a. W
值班超版 发表于 2009-9-27 08:42 
9 j; V. ~; X; M这个新闻存在明显的误导。 这次NORBEST FARM 免费土豆活动和中国食品无关，而是呼吁市民反对市政府因EDMONTON市的发展对农田的征用。下面是EDMONTON JOURNAL关于免费土豆活动的报导.
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1 z4 R$ m) q' R- l$ Y# OFarmer offering tons of spuds to press point on urban sprawl6 R2 J+ c/ m d3 h- [
4 z3 v' h6 _& _) \$ l& W& ZSpread of development threatens agricultural area in northeast
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By Richard Warnica, Edmonton JournalSeptember 23, 2009Comments (22)
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+ ^. X+ @3 Z. _/ w1 j0 cPotato farmer Gord Visser is giving away 100,000 pounds of Russet potatoes on Saturday to raise awareness about local food grown in the northeast corner of Edmonton.Photograph by: Ed Kaiser, The Journal, Edmonton Journal, A" i# Q. e- _$ L* S5 B; `
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" E) c8 i0 n* n2 _7 d8 C7 m$ PGordon Visser makes an unlikely barker of the one-day sale. A third-generation farmer in Edmonton's fertile northeast, Visser hawks Russets, not Hide-A-Beds, so he's not normally one for the giveaway deal. But this Saturday--for one day only --he's making an exception.# F% B; ]3 `+ j) _& e/ ?5 W
In seven hours, Visser plans to hand out an entire field of Russet potatoes. If you want your share, all you need to do is show up, grab a bag and start filling.
3 T/ W! M( ^7 M7 IThe giveaway is part of a growing Edmonton movement to protect the city's dwindling agricultural land from development. By luring the hordes with the promise of free spuds, Visser hopes to send a lasting message about the value of local grub.9 L3 |( \5 K. l* I6 h4 H
"To invite people out to the land --to see the land, to smell it, to experience it--to ask them to come and support the agriculture in this land without giving them something would be hard to do," Visser said Tuesday in an interview from his farm off 195th Avenue near the Manning Freeway.
3 t1 l3 y! U& i) w8 T, Y, q: K9 U: F"My thinking was, if you go to any place in the summer, like Mayfield Park, or one of the parks, and some-one's giving away free Coke, people seem to line up. So I thought, 'Well, we'll give away 50 pounds of potatoes.'": @0 o/ R* h3 B# ^* l X) V2 e
From experience, Visser thinks those 50 pounds, or 23 kilograms, properly stored, should last a family for months.8 P, O7 u% B# r4 p
He has more than 45,000 kilograms set aside for the day, about $20,000 worth in total.
9 w- ^; A; E( \8 S2 N+ AThe cost to him is substantial, but he said he's happy to pay it if it gets the message out.
9 B: C, i8 X9 R4 I3 H3 T) N5 U4 ZVisser's grandfather moved to Edmonton from Holland in the 1950s and the Vissers have farmed here ever since.' [3 S; {9 J: D/ \: V. Z
Visser's brother still works their father's plot, growing produce mostly for the local farmers markets, and he hopes his son may one day farm there as well.
$ L& G, k) d. u+ F+ \- h' G1 E"This stuff that we have here, this land, is unique," Visser said.
* f7 }& X/ T2 D8 |- X8 ABut as Edmonton continues to grow, Visser and other urban-farm advocates worry the pressure to rezone the land for retail and residential will become overwhelming.
6 y2 G6 Q/ h; K$ a k, g @Many other farms in the area are on fields owned by large landholding companies, and if they're eventually sold to developers, Visser worries he won't be able to survive forever.
- x5 G9 p3 G4 V ^' a# o"It's just about impossible to be an agricultural island in an urban setting," he said. "So what we're hoping for is somehow we can integrate agriculture with some urban, but not to a degree that we're just paving it all over."1 S: k" X' F6 q" m5 ~
Visser organized Saturday's giveaway with the Greater Edmonton Alliance, an advocacy group hoping to convince the city to adopt a formal pro-farm policy in their next municipal development plan.
5 G8 x0 N. E5 ~3 b: ?& s2 N( |" bThe alliance's Michael Walters said Saturday is mostly about giving Edmontonians a real experience of where their food comes from.
6 K- K1 C" }7 _/ q"It's a tragedy that we have disconnected food from land, because there is no food that comes from anywhere other than land--on this planet," he said. "So we think the important thing here is to begin reconnecting those two things."& \3 s3 Q+ I& F
If you want your free spuds, take Manning Drive north to 195th Avenue, turn right and follow the signs to Norbest Farms. Volunteers will be there from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free bags.8 A; B0 r# }! V+ b
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I went that day, actually 1000 cars on highway, another 1000 cars waiting on the long narrow line towards to the farm from the highway. I was stuck there for more than one and a half hours driving through the 4km way to the farm from highway.: w* }7 I+ W7 s4 Y
