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- From: "nan and stewart" <stewart AT watervalley.net>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: big thanks from the delta of miss.
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:33:54 -0000
Thank you for all the thoughtful detailed responses
to making a living, etc. not only have you helped my small farm, but i
work with limited resource black farmers, as well as families at or below the
poverty level, in an area of high unemployment....helping them start market
gardens, or even switch from cotton/soybeans to vegetables, using at least some
sustainable agricultural practices
i also volunteer with Heifer Project International,
helping a local group start their livestock project....to qualify they must be
quite low in income, and make a commitment to work as a group.....folks here
still remember raising hogs, cattle, goats, etc. but it is a lost art, and the
only way extension teaches is confinement, grain fed, etc....
I am trying to introduce sustainable methods and
welcome any contacts you all might have nearby (that would be in the Arkansas
Delta area, or Memphis area)
i am in way over my head, experience wise, but
there is no one else foolish enough (chuckle) to even try, so i depend alot on
the support of colleagues to help stay one step ahead of folks!
you would be pleased by the interest expressed by
families to grow organically (they understand organic to mean no chemicals and i
am introducing concepts of caring for the soil food web, etc.)
These are among the poorest communities in the
country, and they are exposed to 35 lbs. per person per year of agricultural
poisons from crop dusters alone! It is heartening to introduce sust. ag
methods, even if only one grower at a time......
you all have nourished my spirit immensely and i am
grateful! (it is kinda lonely here, so few others doing this kind of work,
so this listserve is my community too)
nan j.
dancing goats farm
water valley, ms
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big thanks from the delta of miss.,
nan and stewart, 01/12/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: big thanks from the delta of miss., Peg Cook, 01/12/2001
- Re: big thanks from the delta of miss., William Barry, 01/12/2001
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