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  • From: "Wiener, Benjamin L CPT NG NG FORSCOM" <benjamin.l.wiener AT us.army.mil>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Organic Certifcation Field History
  • Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:48:45 +0300

how do you get enough isolation on 4 acres to grow multiple varieties for
seed? Aren't all 8 of the beds too close together for wind or insect
pollination?

Ben Wiener

----- Original Message -----
From: "Maurice E. Smith" <maurice AT chibardun.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 15:24
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Organic Certifcation Field History
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org


> The best way is use the KISS principle, Keep It Stupid Simple.
> The more you
> try to read into the rules the harder it gets. Ask lots of
> questions and do
> try to make it more then it is.
>
> Maurice Smith
> DragSmith Farms
> Barron, WI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jon H
> Sent: 11/02/2009 21:18
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Market-farming] Organic Certifcation Field History
>
> Its time for us to be preparing our organic certifcation grower plan
> and my long standing headache in this is preparing the field history
> data. We are a 4 acre farm that grows vegetable seed. What this
> entails as far as layout is a diverse number of vegetables grown
> in a
> number of isolation plots through our fields. We have 8 or so fields,
> and though those are constant, what shape the various plots in any
> given field will take from year to year is highly variable.
> Instead of
> one tomato patch, for seed isolation we will have up to 5, and often
> the seed plots will be boxy and not stretch from one end of the field
> to the other because of pollination concerns. The way the field
> histories are expected to be presented for the grower plan make more
> sense if our fields were something like 10 acres tomatoes, 15 acres
> wheat, 25 acres corn, etc. The grower plan asks to have charts filled
> out, but the way that we use on the farm and makes sense for us is
> grided maps for tracking field histories. I would like to present the
> certifier with an alternative way of doing field history that
> would be
> easier for us and more accurate for them. I know they can often be
> very particular, so I'd like to have a good plan to show them from the
> start. I am curious to hear from folks here who get organic
> certification and also often have pretty convoluted garden layouts and
> hear how you all present your data.
> Thank you much,
> Jon in Central VA
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