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  • From: "Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: big thanks from the delta of miss.
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:54:23 -0500

Hi Nan,
Just wanted you to know that the information we discussed on the phone is coming.  I have been very busy this week with out of town meetings.  I didn't want you to think that I forgot to send the information.
 
Peg Cook
Cook's Consulting
Lowville, NY.
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 5:33 AM
Subject: big thanks from the delta of miss.

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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