Market Farming

["Ericka & Rich Dana" <doodles AT netins.net>]

We get donations from Market & CSA customers and neighbors of used 
seedflats, plastic and terra cotta pots, paper and plastic shopping bags,
newspapers, egg cartons, canning jars and the like.

We can use all of it again at one time or another, and this stuff goes
around and around for a long time before finally going to the "official"
recycling center, the compost heap, or the dump, depending.

We also take donations of old sheets, blankets, towels and the like to use
as winter protection in the garden or to pass on to animal shelters that
need them.

All of the above mentioned stuff is often considered "unrecycleable" or not
nice enough (too worn out) for resale at places like Goodwill. You have to
have some storage space for irregular sizes and shapes of containers and
sometimes do some scrubbing to manage this kind of thing, but I like it -
and people like to find a home for useful things rather than throw them out.
Sometimes I find bags of things hanging from my mailbox...

Ericka, Catnip Farm
--The Mighty Oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
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>From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
>To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Starting Seeds Indoors
>Date: Sun, Feb 27, 2000, 8:11 PM
>
>> From: Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT netins.net>>
>> What do you use for the trays or flats?  I have been looking in the
>> seed
>> catalogs for things to plant seeds in and have become confused with
>> all the
>> odd numbers.  I'm assuming that one needs a tray that will hold
>> water.
>
> I never buy flats.  This is a good way for the community to recycle so
> I get to run free ads in the paper asking for donations of these flats
> in the spring--just bring them to the farmer's market.  They come to
> recycle, bring friends & family.  It exposes new customers to the
> farmer's market, and many end up buying from me.
>
> The flats are standard nursery size.  If they don't have holes, I just
> use my flame weeded to melt a few through.  Once planted, I float them
> in large tubs when watering is needed.
>
> Liz Pike
> Morningstar Gardens
> Pollocksville NC
> ICQ 46954468
>
>
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