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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: more greenhouse questions!
  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:54:12 -0600


Alison

Every state land-grant institution has a SARE representative. To find
out who your state rep is you can contact national SARE headquarters at
www.sare.org or email them at san AT nal.usda.gov . I've met some of these reps
in the upper midwest and found them to be very encouraging toward on-farm
research and exploring organic issues. Your project makes sense as it has
broader application than it might first appear. You might want to expound on
that in another proposal. The wider the audience, the more merit funding
has.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center

-----Original Message-----
From: Wiediger, Alison <awiediger AT HART.k12.ky.us>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:54 AM
Subject: RE: more greenhouse questions!


>There may be. Several have encouraged us to submit to SARE for a producer
>grant. There may also be other opportunities out there. Anyone with
>advice, we have open ears. We think this could be important information as
>farmers look for ways to expand niche markets, and even out cash flow
during
>the entire year. Thanks for the kind words.
>
>Alison
>
>> ----------
>> From: Bill Shoemaker[SMTP:wshoemak AT inil.com]
>> Reply To: market farming
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:43 AM
>> To: market farming
>> Subject: Re: more greenhouse questions!
>>
>> Alison
>>
>> That sounds like a good project. It's really disappointing that you
>> weren't funded. Have you thought about applying again? I wonder if
there's
>> still an opportunity out there.
>>
>> Bill Shoemaker
>> Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
>> Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wiediger <wiediger AT email.msn.com>
>> To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>> Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 7:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: more greenhouse questions!
>>
>>
>> >We are. there has literally been no long term research in the US on
this
>> >subject. Any time light levels are low, there is a significant chance
>> that
>> >the growing plant will accumulate nitrates - especially known nitrate
>> >accumulators such as spinach. There have been some 'snapshot' studies
>> done,
>> >but nothing showing actual seasonal changes. We submitted a grant
>> request
>> >to OFRF this past year to study exactly that - recording light levels
>> each
>> >day, min and max temps, and bi-weekly nitrate levels in 4 different
types
>> of
>> >crops. It was fairly extensive, very detailed in data. We wanted to
>> record
>> >how the nitrate levels changed as the light levels changed. We had
>> planned
>> >to post data on the website in real time for those interesssted in the
>> >progress. Then, we wanted to run it for an additional year if there was
a
>> >nitrate problem, changing our fertility program to try and help slow
down
>> >the accumulation. We were not granted the funds for research, and from
>> the
>> >comments, feel that they thought 'farmers' weren't capable of this type
>> of
>> >research - that it takes 'university people' to do this. 'Course, the
>> >universities aren't doing this type of growing, farmers are.
>> >
>> >There has been quite a bit of research in Europe, where this type of
>> growing
>> >is more common, but it is difficult to extrapolate to this country -
>> >climates are different. Hopefully we'll still get a chance to check this
>> out
>> >someday - but the tests, light meters, and time to record and analyze
>> data
>> >are too costly for us in our operation. We just tell people not to eat
>> >spinach salads every day - and they don't.
>> >
>> >Alison Wiediger
>> >Au Naturel Farm
>> >http://aunaturelfarm.homestead.com
>> >
>>
>>
>
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