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  • From: "Dan Clost" <dan.clost@sympatico.ca>
  • To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Organic or chemical future?????
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:48:47 -0400

 
 

1. Do you garden organically (naturally if you want)?
Yes.
 
2. Is there a growing trend towards organics and away from chemicals amongst your audience, vica versa or status quo?
 
Really hard to tell. The anti-chemical folk are much more active in putting their thoughts out there.
i have received lots of response to my "weird" articles and those that talk about the business, but very little feedback at all when it comes to chemicals, ornamental bans etc. Sort of strange, that.
I know at work  we can run an organic workshop ( we call it environment friendly) and get 60 or so people crammed into our seminar area. (If we serve coffee and doughnuts we'll get a dozen more)
At our garden centre, to get to the 'Plant Pharmacy", customers have to walk past the Environmentally Friendly display which inlcudes a listing of common problems and natural solutions. Most of us on staff will steer customers to the most benign, least intrusive solution to their perceived problem. However, as long as I accept Mr. Connon's  paycheque I must also sell any legal product that our customer wishes to buy.
Also, to get to the conventional fertilisers, customers must walk past the Myke and all the Turf Revolution products.
Our organic sales have increased about 3% over the past few years.
3. Do you see a divide between "Older gardeners" (40 plus)  who are chemical users and Younger Gardeners (Below 40) who are organic?
I see a division between new gardeners and long time gardeners.  New gardeners include retired folk moving out from the city. Generally, they want grass and they don't care how they get it. Edibles, such as small fruits, vegetables, larger fruits, are a different story. These they want "organic". They are more willing to have grass, and go to the farmer's market for their produce. Which, since it was grown on a farm-in the ground-the real dirt- is 100% organic anyway.
 
Would love to see folks accepting produce with a few spots or imperfect colour but I don't see that happening soon. Hope this helps somewhat, Jeff,
Dan

Interested in your thoughts. Feel free to respond off list.

See you all in Oka!

Jeff L




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