Editor:
Re: Weather woes may be ending for city’s farmers, May 20.
The weather woes may be ending but not Surrey council’s onslaught on farmland. Soon there won’t be any farmland left. You just have to read Surrey’s development proposals to see how much agricultural land is transformed into development and industry.
Surrey used to have many strawberry fields, but they are all gone, except perhaps one; the raspberries fields probably not much better. The only fruits left will be the blueberries, but they will be covered with pesticides – to make you sick and the bees disappear…
So, columnist Frank Bucholtz must be living in the past – not in the now – and he will have to forget about the future, because the only roadside fruit stands left will be the ones in the supermarkets, thanks to Surrey council’s woes on farmland and ignorance to preserve land for B.C.’s future food needs. But, then, there may not be any future anyway.
Catharina Leidel, Surrey
