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  • From: "Miller-Morgan, Megan" <Megan.Miller-Morgan AT orst.edu>
  • To: "'market farming'" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: organic corn (fwd)
  • Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:27:43 -0700


Hi-
I used to order organic corn from an organic produce wholesaler (Organically
Grown Cooperative) in Eugene, OR. I was told by one of their staff that
there are varieties of corn that are "tighter" and more "closed" (excuse my
very technical language!) where the silks are and apparently this can be a
good deterrent as well to the moth that lays its eggs in the corn. Someone
tell me if this is so, or correct me if I am in error here.
Thanks!
Megan Miller-Morgan
University of Oregon RARE Program
Lincoln County Extension Office
29 SE 2nd Street
Newport, OR 97365


-----Original Message-----
From: Ava Devenport [mailto:essenheal AT iname.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 6:00 PM
To: market farming
Subject: Re: organic corn (fwd)

On 05/19/00, ""delannw" <delannw AT dlogue.net>" wrote:
> Facinating discussion here on organic sweet corn. I was told by an
> extension agent two years ago, that organic sweet corn had to have worms.
> That, he claimed, was the 'test' or expectation for organically grown
corn.
> If there weren't any worms, he said, then it being organic was questioned.
>
The only reason they look for worms, insects, etc. is the fact that it's an
easy "visual", means the food is "alive". It doesn't mean that if there
are no worms, etc., that it has been chemically treated, just makes their
job a little harder.

> I was dumbfounded. Told him I didn't have worm problems in my organic
> sweet corn. He didn't believe me.

If he didn't believe you, he's not a good extension agent as there are many
"natural chemicals" within the organic world that can repel insects without
altering the food.
>
> Of course, that was the consistent message during the master gardener
> training sessions. The extension educators for fruits and vegetables gave
> us lots of disgusting examples of produce that was "organically grown" and
> urged us not to do it. That seems to have been toned down a bit in the
last
> year.
>
I'll take the "ugly" produce that has swarms of gnats, flies, brown spots,
misshappen shapes, etc., versus the grocery store produce that has been so
"artificially chemical" treated that no living thing can survive! Live
food equals live bodies!

Blessings,
Ava
> Del Williams
> Farmer in the Del
> Clifton IL

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