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  • From: Alex McGregor <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: more greenhouse questions!
  • Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:44:04 -0500


Alison,

Finding a chemical grower that's using unheated houses may be impossible.
And using one
of your frames would end your certification there- not worth the loss of
dollars or
damage to the soil ecosystem. If you could only get someone in an Ag school
near you to
get funding for the cold frames and cooperate. When Pigs Fly!

And I love it when people tell me what I'm doing is impossible! Especially
when they're
looking at it! Jean Houston told a story about a tribe in Africa who
literally could
not see beyond their tribal boundaries- their belief of where the world
ended- in
reference to how our brains can be limited by our beliefs. BTW, my answer is
to thank
them for telling me after I did it, otherwise I wouldn't have tried.

I found an ally at the County Soil Conservation Office. She's the soil
specialist,
USDA/NRCS. Most NRCS people are very different from Ag Schoolers. She was
one of the
cooperators on my SARE grant. It might be worth checking out. And she's now
active in
helping expand our farmers market and forming a sust. ag. group.

Alex McGregor
Walden Farm

"Wiediger, Alison" wrote:

> The premise that organically managed soils are less likely to show
> nitrate accumulation is one we agree with and would hope the study showed.
> I agree about the comparison with soluble nitrate fed plants - now we just
> have to find a 'conventional' grower, growing unconventionally (in unheated
> coldframes!!) Our landgrant college folks are still telling people that what
> we are doing can't be done - even after eating our greens at meals in
> January. Think they'd be willing to participate ? It's an interesting
> study, and one that needs to be done if this type of crop production grows.





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