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  • From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT voyager.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fedco etc.
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:36:30 -0500

I'm the friend of Wyatt's that has had a lot of sports/mistakes from Fedco. Last year it was the Even Star kale that was supposed to be Dinosaur kale. Also have had several other brassica problems over the years-broccoli raab that turned out to be daikon, acorn squashes that were not the variety expected, etc. All that said, I still order a couple hundred dollars worth of seed each year from them and I really like the company. Most every mistake they have sent us has been sellable in the end and they are great about making good on mistakes. I love their politics and the aversion to all things Monsanto and GMO and they fact they do buy from small farms. That there will get an order from me even if it is imperfect

I am wondering if many of the mistakes have been caused by the fact we have been ordering via a co-op. A group of us get together pool our order and get the big discounts but that means Fedco than sends all the seeds to the coordinator who than repacks the the seed packets. The errors could have been from that, though I don't think so as the packets all seemed correct-it was the contents that were wrong on occasion. This year we did not go through the co-op and did an individual order so we can get our seeds in January and not mid to late Feb. So perhaps the order will be 100% correct this year.


Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
Eaton, OH






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