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  • From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Whats the difference?
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:09:46 -0500

This is an interesting process, and I would like to hear or read more about it.  At the moment I don't see it as viable for us because the producing small farmers are more than an hour away.  However, like you, I don't see Farmers' Markets and CSAs as adequate, and what else is there?
 
We have a few, new, small, grocers in the Austin area, who are dealing directly with farmers.  That's a promising alternative to supermarkets.
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Inman
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Whats the difference?

The posts about Farmers Markets were interesting and sound very good & green. But I take issue with them as I feel this idea sets us up to further promote the Standard American Grocery Store Mentaility.

Im working in my own community (and several others actually) to promote a real farm friends mentailty, where everyone produces something and grocery lists are lists of people whose farms we will visit this week, rather than just a list of food items to be purchased. In Oklahoma that means making friends, paying no sales tax, keeping the farmers prices down and eating like kings! I have located the majority of my families groceries (that we arent producing at home) from farms within 10 miles from me. I know several others doing the same. I call it stepping off the grid. I dont need to support CSAs that market their members profits to Farmers Market custoimers, rather than returning the profits to their investors. I dont need to support commercial dependancies that cost huge amounts of MORE WORK BY THE FARMER (eg having to get up at 4am, etc) I support the people who are willing to be neighborly and keep our ideals in focus.

This is all a part of the same mentaility that inspires me to vote my conscience and not just for someone that is predicted to WIN. If we all vote our conscience, verses voting for who the media (christian and otherwise) predicted to win, I think we might be surprised at Gods blessing.

Same here....if you want to encourage a practical, not regulated food source....buy from farmers you live near you know and set your self out to determine what you can produce to contribute to a REALLY viable market. Get off the treadmill and live they way you say you believe.

Another friend shared with me this last month how she is tired of fighting the environment to have the foods she wants and she has decided to research and garden whats native and build a balanced diet out of that. In Oklahoma that means drought tolerant plants and animals as a rule...though we are getting alot of rain this year - lol. Her garden is doing VERY well.

This isnt addressed to any one person....just a few thoughts in general. What are we fighting here? It seems to me many are fighting God Himself.

Dona in NE Oklahoma

"A RICH person is not the one that HAS the most, its the person who NEEDS the least!"



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