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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
  • To: market-farming
  • Subject: Edible flowers: food for the table, crops for the market farmer (Faq time!)
  • Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 16:49:50 -0500




On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:25:00 -0500, "Elizabeth Pike"
<pike AT always-online.com> wrote:

>We're all in the business of growing &
>selling food (you can eat some flowers; }

You seem to know something about this, Liz.
Can you give us a list of edible flowers with
notation for those with economic potential for market farmers?

As if you didn't have enough work....

>), & we absolutely must be
>safe about it or we could lose our farms, not to mention the bad press
>our fellow farmers would be forced to deal with. I'm not an
>industrial farmer, but I can learn from their mistakes. That's why
>I'm organic!

For field crops this seems to center around the E Coli contamination
issue - maybe those who compost their manure soil amendments are safe
from this problem.

LL
Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm
http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden InterGarden
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lflondon AT mindspring.com london AT metalab.unc.edu




  • Edible flowers: food for the table, crops for the market farmer (Faq time!), Lawrence F. London, Jr., 02/01/2000

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