tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-397295736719168796.post5149642885862618090..comments2023-09-08T02:16:04.707-07:00Comments on <br><br><br>Muskegon Critic: Apple Growers Face Bumper Crop Apple Year With Nobody to HarvestMuskegon Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00369039312882343162noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-397295736719168796.post-64460729426836418142011-09-10T13:52:14.270-07:002011-09-10T13:52:14.270-07:00Martin: Thanks! Thats some interesting stuff.
Rab...Martin: Thanks! Thats some interesting stuff.<br /><br />Rabbetry: No doubt. I was surprised at how much the pay is....$12 to $15 per hour. Though I believe that pay is contingent on X number of bushels picked per day. Heck, folks in Muskegon used pick blueberries until not too long ago. Hot, hand picking work in the middle of the summer. I'm confident harvesting is something that could catch on as local work again.Muskegon Critichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369039312882343162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-397295736719168796.post-66010627390395968202011-09-10T12:17:06.041-07:002011-09-10T12:17:06.041-07:00Lots of apples were a common event in England. Bef...Lots of apples were a common event in England. Before Columbus brought the tomato it was used as a base for sauces, both sweet and savory. Preservation is the main problem. There is only so much apple sauce and apple butter (thick apple sauce) that can be faced. So they dumped whatever savories into it to make a sauce for meat or? Thought you might enjoy trying some <a href="http://dumluks.blogspot.com/2006/09/dum-luks-sauce.html" rel="nofollow"> Dum Luk's Sauce, or 'Original Worcestershire Sauce'</a> after you return from the Farmer's Market. <br />I remember that well from the late fifties. I understand that one was buried under a freeway underpass. Glad they continued. <br />--mlMartin Langelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214277415738344944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-397295736719168796.post-88708627206475833152011-09-10T10:21:37.004-07:002011-09-10T10:21:37.004-07:00Offer a decent wage/per lb. rate to pickers and yo...Offer a decent wage/per lb. rate to pickers and you'll have all the help you can handle. Drive by the lines-down-the-street at any local jobs fair and pick people right out of the line. Income, even if you have to do a little real work for it, is income and I'm sure at this point many of those standing in lines (whether at the food stamp office or the workforce center) are probably ready to jump on just such an opportunity as this.Food Forestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11545798235888471815noreply@blogger.com