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  • From: "Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: newcomer from mississippi
  • Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:30:31 -0400

Nan,
Welcome to the list.  There is a lot of good advice from the Growers on this site!
 
Peg Cook
Cook's Consulting
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: newcomer from mississippi

hi y'all...this is nan at dancing goats farm in north mississippi (zone 7b with 35 acres of RED CLAY pastures...nice for goats, but a wee bit difficult for the vegetables)
 
i am new to the list and reading it is one of the highlights of my day...you are all so generous with information, which is great for a beginner such as myself
 
i am planning to start my organic (soon to be certified when miss. gets their program finalized) salad greens business in the fall (the dept of public health said no problem with marketing them as an "unprocessed" food item so no need for commercial kitchen)
 
since i am so new, i will mostly just listen carefully...but i do have information on KENAF, since Miss. Extension grew trials of it here and i can get seeds to pass on...they have told me that it would be excellent in a market garden because beneficials such as lady bugs LOVE to eat every single part of it...and we need all the beneficials we can get here!
 
i grew organically in massachusetts  - in retrospect, it was heaven to grow there, compared to the challenges here...however, thanks to folks such as yourselves, i am not giving up (though tempted to at times) and hope to stay here and grow till i fall down in the field and need to be composted out back.
 
i do alot of workshops on the farm and in the public school systems on composting, organic gardening and also bring all my farm animals into the classrooms, libraries, nursing homes, etc....for healing and joy, and to teach where food comes from, and also to nuture empathy in folks so they will stop eating factory farm meat (i am vegetarian but married to a carnivore).
 
depending on how many KENAF seeds i can get (unless someone else has a regular supply) i would be happy to mail some to interested folks...i am anxious to grow it myself, but the person didn't get them to me in time this year (should be planted in early april or may in our climate)
 
again, thank you so much for taking the time to post all the incredicably helpful messages that you do...i am listening carefully and sharing with other folks all over mississippi!!!!
 
nan at dancing goats farm
(they are dairy goats and they do dance, but only as the spirit moves, not to any set tune!)



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