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- From: "Nan & Stewart" <stewart AT watervalley.net>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: newcomer from mississippi
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:21:16 -0500
hi y'all...this is nan at
dancing goats farm in north mississippi (zone 7b with 35 acres of RED CLAY
pastures...nice for goats, but a wee bit difficult for the
vegetables)
i am new to the list and
reading it is one of the highlights of my day...you are all so generous with
information, which is great for a beginner such as myself
i am planning to start my
organic (soon to be certified when miss. gets their program finalized) salad
greens business in the fall (the dept of public health said no problem with
marketing them as an "unprocessed" food item so no need for commercial
kitchen)
since i am so new, i will
mostly just listen carefully...but i do have information on KENAF, since Miss.
Extension grew trials of it here and i can get seeds to pass on...they have told
me that it would be excellent in a market garden because beneficials such as
lady bugs LOVE to eat every single part of it...and we need all the beneficials
we can get here!
i grew organically in
massachusetts - in retrospect, it was heaven to grow there, compared to
the challenges here...however, thanks to folks such as yourselves, i am not
giving up (though tempted to at times) and hope to stay here and grow till i
fall down in the field and need to be composted out back.
i do alot of workshops on
the farm and in the public school systems on composting, organic gardening and
also bring all my farm animals into the classrooms, libraries, nursing homes,
etc....for healing and joy, and to teach where food comes from, and also to
nuture empathy in folks so they will stop eating factory farm meat (i am
vegetarian but married to a carnivore).
depending on how many
KENAF seeds i can get (unless someone else has a regular supply) i would be
happy to mail some to interested folks...i am anxious to grow it myself, but the
person didn't get them to me in time this year (should be planted in early april
or may in our climate)
again, thank you so much
for taking the time to post all the incredicably helpful messages that you
do...i am listening carefully and sharing with other folks all over
mississippi!!!!
nan at dancing goats
farm
(they are dairy goats and they do dance,
but only as the spirit moves, not to any set
tune!)
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newcomer from mississippi,
Nan & Stewart, 05/26/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: newcomer from mississippi, Hook Family, 05/27/2000
- Re: newcomer from mississippi, Peg Cook, 05/27/2000
- Re: newcomer from mississippi, Ava Devenport, 05/28/2000
- Re: newcomer from mississippi, Tom, 05/29/2000
- Re: newcomer from mississippi, Ava Devenport, 05/30/2000
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