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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Certified Naturally Grown
  • Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:16:46 -0600


That's a wonderful project, glad to hear it. Agree, the certification does
look more user friendly - good word - and we're going to have to get with
it ourselves soon.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/1/2007 at 1:08 PM Jeanne Driese wrote:

>Right now myself and 2 others are in the process of helping another
>grower get her certification in this program. It is much more user
>friendly than the USDA program.
>The farm we are doing is over 88 arcres and it has been wonderful to see
>how they are reclaiming dead fields with cover crops. She had a photo
>that was taken from the air, and you could see white areas where tobacco
>had been grown for years!
>Now the fields are lush with barley and crimson clover! It will be mowed
>and left on the ground for mulch and they are mowing when the seeds are
>ripe so it will self sow next year. It will take about three years to
>make the soil useful.
>Jeanne in NE TN zone 6
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: TradingPostPaul
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:45 PM
> Subject: [Livingontheland] Certified Naturally Grown
>
>
>
> Here is Certification Standards for Produce, for the label Certified
> Naturally Grown.
> http://www.naturallygrown.org/producestandards.html
>
> This is a nonprofit organization outside the USDA organic program, and
>much
> simpler and more sensible.
>







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