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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Discussion with a Chef
  • Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:34:09 -0700


I see Willie Nelson has been supporting TOFGA
http://www.localharvest.org/event.jsp?id=6817

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/25/2007 at 8:26 AM TradingPostPaul wrote:

>Why not? Because they don't know how to make any money farming any more.
>And that's because they're stuck in the tractor row industrial model, even
>with organics. More of what Ken said - the problem is in the head.
>
>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>On 12/25/2007 at 7:51 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:
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>>I had an interesting discussion with a chef yesterday. She is in charge
>>of meals at a high-end Baptist school in Houston and feeds 1,000 meals a
>>day to kids from kindergarten to 8th grade. As upper-middle class
>>members, the parents of her students demand the best food for their kids,
>>and that means organic, locally produced, as much as possible. I was
>>surprised that, with all the resources she has, she finds it difficult to
>>get the food she wants in Houston, and is forced to use conventional
food.
>> She is able to articulate the idea that people like her, with the
>>financial resources, can help build the market so that there is more good
>>food available for all, if producers can respond to the demand.
>>
>>I gave her the name of the president of TOFGA in the hope that he can
hook
>>her up with some farmers. Yup, folks, the market is there; the farmers
>>aren't. Why not?
>>
>>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
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