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  • From: santacruzfarm AT la-tierra.com
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Value Added (was re: market-farming Working CSA Shares)
  • Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:12:09 PST


Hello we make a good living off of 4.50 acres and some greenhouse
area. The farm supports my family and a full time employe. There is
quite a few of us.
Don



On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 07:25:31 -0500 Tetrad wrote:

> Robert wrote:
>
> >How many of you are moving to - or trying to move to -
> value-added?
>
> I completely agree with you -- my Excalibur dehydrator is my best
> friend!
> This is why my focus in Seed Savers Exchange is on tomatoes and
> paprikas
> that grow well in SE PA -- you end up with a premium product that
> keeps
> indefinately.
>
> There's a decent market for hardneck garlic because it's not
> something that
> folks can get their hands on easily, but I really concentrate on
> what my
> dehydrator can produce -- dried tomatoes, paprika powder, hot
> pepper
> powders, and garlic powder out of the garlic that's damamged in
> harvesting.
> When Kimberton Hills Camphill Village had a bunch of split
> canteloupes in
> 1999, I peeled and sliced them and put them in the dehydrator.
> You couldn't
> keep people's hands out of them -- they were *fantastic*! I took
> them with
> me to the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
> (PASA)
> winter conference last February and you could just see the
> "ah-ha!" moment
> in everyone's eyes.
>
> Personally, I don't know anyone that makes a living from farming
> alone --
> everyone I know has a job on the side, or like myself, has gone
> non-profit/educational. It's sad and it rots, but somehow, we all
> have to
> pay our bills and farming alone just doesn't do it. And I don't
> see it
> getting any better under The Shrub.
>
>
>
> Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden
>
> A mission of
> St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville,
> PA 19460
>
>
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