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Jeanne, I'd love to read it all and have a discussion, 
too.

For all of you following our Healthy Harvest community 
project, we had a booth at yesterday's city-wide garage 
sale with some of our produce on display and had 22 new 
people sign up to become involved, which brings us to 37. 
I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but considering our 
town has 49 people, and the other has less than 400, and 
we just started, I think this is significant response to 
starting a local food movement.

At our second meeting, we found out one couple had planted 
44 olive trees in hopes of eventually pressing olive oil, 
and that someone is already doing that south of us about 
75 miles. Another farmer showed up who has 150 acres 
interested in growing. Looks like a farmers market is 
going to evolve. We also found a man who is trading us 
okra and Jerusalem artichokes for our eggs, and some new 
customers for eggs.

--Sage


On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:44:46 -0400
 "Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> It would be great if all on this list read the article 
> all the way to the end (it is very long) and then we have 
> a discussion about what it has to say.  Some of my own 
> thought are expressed below.