[Market-farming] Organic Price Project.
Beth Spaugh
lists at rhomestead.com
Mon Apr 6 16:18:30 EDT 2009
It looks like the current Rodale Price Report is for wholesale terminal
markets. The old New Farm one was data from various farmers markets, in
various units (#, bunch, quart, etc).
Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com <http://rhomestead.com/>
Garden fresh vegetables, organically grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and
geese
"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." -
Wendell Berry
"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances
Moore Lappe
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Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 11:02 AM
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Subject: [Market-farming] Organic Price Project.
Beth- in response to your thoughts on this project through the New Farm. Is
this related to the Rodale Institute's Organic Price Index?
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/Organic-Price-Report
The reason I ask, is because it seems like their price report is still up
and running- but seems to be more a yearly index than one updated throughout
the season.
Additionally, I'm wondering if there is the chance that the project might
be resurrected with all the "green" funding the new administration is
putting through. Does anyone have a good contact at NewFarm that would
know about the old project?
Thanks!
John Paul
Maybe NewFarm will reply and give accurate current information. I THINK the
price project is dormant. I cooperated in it several years ago. The entry
wasn't hard at all, but finding time at market to see what prices were was
my challenge. But, I THINK the organic price project was grant funded, along
with the wonderful columns for new farmers that they had, and the grant has
ended, without longterm funding to keep it up.
Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com <http://rhomestead.com/>
Garden fresh vegetables, organically grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and
geese
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