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- From: "Adriana Gutierrez" <gutierrez-lagatta AT home.com>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Greenhouse questions
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 02:51:21 -0600
Re: Restaurant lettuce sales
Bill,
How are you packaging the baby's (what count) and what price can you
get for them in Boston? I'm in a similar situation with few local
farmers here in Birmingham and hope to get growing again soon. After
growing mesclun for 18 months I know just how much work is involved.
Baby heads would be so much eaiser.
>Regarding the baby lettuce, I have used quite a few different ones.
The
butterheads seem to be the nicest (to my eyes), but the restaurants
don't
care what kind I have, as long as they are baby types. Of course, I
am in a
pretty enviable position. I live very close to Boston and there are
virtually no farmers left in the area.
Re: Nitrate build-up
I believe the book Solviva By Anna Edey also mentioned concerns about
winter nitrate concentrations and she was all organic...
>On another note: I would have expected organically managed soils to
cause
fewer problems too. However, the research that I saw from Germany--a
gazillion years ago, but probably really in the mid- to late
70's--came up
with the opposite result. Plants from the organic soils had the
highest
levels.
- Greenhouse questions, Adriana Gutierrez, 02/02/2001
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