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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Bev
Here in central Mo lots of small towns have farmers
markets these are such low key things that they may
not be listed.  Perhaps that is the case in Ga.
Van Dell

--- Bevanron <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Just for kicks, I looked up the Georgia information
> and shot off an
> email to the FMNP contact person on how and if an
> individual farmer
> would be approved to sell through the system.  Some
> states apparently
> don't allow individual farmers to sell.....
> Anyway, I went to the state website for farmers
> markets in Georgia, and
> of the 15 markets, the closest one for me would be
> in Atlanta, actually
> Marietta, 75 miles away.
>
http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/States/Georgia.htm
> This website shows which markets take WIC vouchers,
> and of the 15, only
> 3 take vouchers: Atlanta, Columbus, and Augusta. 
> That particular
> Atlanta market is closer to 100 miles from me,
> Columbus and Augusta are
> 5+ hours from here....
> It seems that the program is interested in providing
> fresh fruit and
> veggies to inner city folks since only the largest
> cities and locations
> have WIC voucher approval.  They could care less
> about supporting local
> farmers in rural areas.
> Basically, this doesn't help the little guys like me
> and Lynn very much
> since we don't have huge semi's to truck our stuff
> into the cities and
> we aren't large farms.
> I clicked on the link to one of the FMNP markets,
> the one in
> Morningside, and to sell there, you have to be
> certified organic....I am
> making an assumption that that would be the case
> elsewhere in the state,
> too at places that accept WIC.
> 
> According to this website,
> http://www.n-georgia.com/farmers_markets.htm
> "Georgia has the largest network of farmers markets
> in the country."
> ROTFLMAO
> If that is true, we are in trouble...
> Of the markets on that list, NONE are within 75
> miles of me....almost
> all are either in Atlanta or in south Georgia or at
> least south of
> Atlanta, except for the Athens market, which is 4
> hours away on the
> other side of the state.
> It's a sucky Catch-22...move away from civilization
> to be able to avoid
> covenants so that you can raise what you want, and
> you move away from
> your markets...
> 
> Bev
> 
> Lynda wrote:
> > Isn't Lynn in PA? 
> >
>
http://www.thefoodtrust.org/php/programs/farmers.market.program.php
> > 
> > Here's the info on the WIC Farmers Market program.
> 
> > http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/FMNP/FMNPfaqs.htm
> 
> -- 
> erthnsky AT bellsouth.net        BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm      NW
> Georgia USDA Zone 7
> 34.498N       85.076W
> 
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