[Market-farming] manures/GAP training

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Wed Mar 3 12:43:07 EST 2010


On Mar 3, 2010, at 8:35 AM, saladg at aol.com wrote:

>  All of us need to try to be as clean with our produce as possible,

Now this one I do agree with. Wash your hands, use clean containers,  
don't put fresh manure on top of the lettuce, don't take to market the  
lettuce head with the deer manure on it, test your wash water and use  
only potable water for washing produce and containers, don't take your  
irrigation water right out of the feedlot.

Bear in mind I'm partly the one who set this discussion going by  
reminding people about potential risks of using fresh manure for  
hotbeds.

But attempting to produce sterile growing conditions for produce a) is  
massively unrealistic b) can do huge damage both ecologically and to  
small growers and c) may actually make the problem of pathogens in the  
food supply worse instead of better: both by making it more rather  
than less likely that pathogens as opposed to beneficials are in the  
fields, and by ruining small growers and leaving consumers stuck with  
the large scale food system that can spread disease from one field to  
consumers all over the country.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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