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  • From: Peter Worsley <pwors AT svn.net>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Local & Fresh & Promotions
  • Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:04:46 -0700


Here in my affluent, politically liberal area of Northern California,
the concept of "food miles" is taken very seriously by consumers.- Peter

Lucy Goodman-Owsley wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2000 21:13:41 -0400, market farming wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 15 May 2000 14:52:00 -0500, "Dave Bennett"
> > <dbennett AT micoks.net> wrote:
> >
> > >I think the taste & nutritional superiority of freshly harvested produce
> is the biggest + a market farmer has.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > >Local is unimportant.
> >
> > Local and what's-in-season is all important if you value the small
> > farmers in your locale. Why buy Calif/Fla/Texas/Mex when you can buy
> > locally, as long as all other factors are equal.
> >
> I agree with Lawerence 1,000,000% here. As a CSA grower I have found about
> 95% of my CSA members take the local thing very, very seriously. As a
> Farmer's market grower I have found a far fewer customers care about it
> being local until I explain why buying local is important. After the short
> explaination most go away with heirloom tomatoes and open eyes. Even so I
> would say 65% of my regular farmer's market customers do indeed care about
> the food being locally grown. Some will never care also and are at the
> market looking for the cheapest price-I don't want those folks as customers.
>
> Personally I try to buy local whenever I can. No one around here carries
> many of the farming supplies I need (this is the miswest, land of mechanized
> chemical farming country) So I must go elsewhere for row cover though I do
> get all my chicken feed and inputs such as kelp from local organic farmers
> at higher cost. I use the local grain elevator when I can and they have
> gotten a lot more organic inputs in the past few years. I usually use the
> local hardware store over Wal-Mart even though the prices are higher and the
> little bit of grocery shopping I do I either do at the local, not for profit
> co-op (of which I am a member and also sell produce to the too) or the
> locally owned IGA.
>
> I'll bet there are others on this list that do these things too. By buying
> locally i set an example to my customers and show them it is possible to do
> this.
>
> Fresh is important, gourmet quality is important but none of that matters if
> supporting local buisinesses isn't.
>
> Lucy Goodman-Owsley
> Boulder Belt CSA
> New Paris, OH
> Website: http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/boulderbeltcsa
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