Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Understood. We avoid the big city paperwork nuisance and sell in outlying 
markets that also happen to bring better prices. That website has fairly good 
information but it's three years old and we haven't heard much since, except 
several states are getting more restrictive. I can't accept one size fits 
all; it doesn't.

There is an upside to some regulation, I think, for our own protection. The 
first time one market customer gets sick it'll be all over the news and that 
will make a huge problem for us all. Never mind thousands affected by 
pesticides or e.coli from livestock factories. Best defense is a good 
offense, so I think markets themselves should take the initiative to 
encourage safe handling by growers. Meat, dairy, and value added products 
should get special emphasis. To me that's the best insurance against 
senseless, expensive programs from the feds.

What would Sally Hemmings do?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 4/19/2010 at 8:28 AM moon@ceva.net wrote:

>Paul,
>  I am a small market gardener who has refused to pay sensless
>fees(read Bribes) for permits to sell value added kichen products.
>Maybe $500 plus inspection fees sounds feasable,or non applicable to
>you.
>  Are you ready for GAP?
>http://www.mofga.org/Default.aspx?tabid=735
>  These nation wide regs effect everyone above Radar.
>  Are all your great contributions, articals and reseach to this site
>for entertainment or to alert and educate us? Do we put our heads in
>the sand?
>   I think this is a perfect Grass Roots forum to alert each other of
>the enemmies of the succes of the 'eat local' movement.
>  'What would Jefferson Do?
>Ann
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