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  • From: Joan Vibert <joan AT windwalker-farm.com>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets
  • Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:19:46 -0600


Maybe we should take all this good information regarding locally-grown
versus peddlers and put it together in a handout for those who might need it
in the fight for fresh, locally-grown, "real food". I may give this a try -
there's too much at stake for all of us to allow the grocery store mentality
to take over the farmer's markets and we've already seen it happen around.
Sometimes I think the market manager needs it the most but some of the
customers could use enlightening also, especially those who believe that
bananas can be grown in Kansas or Missouri!

And on the subject of seeds picking up our energy, I'll guarantee you they
do, I've seen it more than once with spotty germination when the planter
wasn't in the right mood. We also had pepper plants pick up on the anger
coming from a woman who helped me in the gardens. She was having a bad
summer and use the garden to exhibit her hostility while weeding, etc. I
noticed that the pepper plants just weren't producing anything except little
tiny peppers. It dawned on me that they thought Shirley was mad at them
because she would get worked up and start yelling about the school
administrators. We finally asked her to stay out of the garden when she
felt that way and honestly we had peppers the rest of the season!

For this reason, I can't imagine doing any of my growing mechanically (on a
tractor) - I'd feel so out of touch with the plant energy and the soil and
what's going on in the soil. I tell people that I have a relationship with
every seedling I start and that it's no different from having thousands of
little babies who all trust you to treat them well. My husband claims that
transplanting takes me so long because I name each one as they go into the
ground - not true but I do give them a little extra pat! I want them happy,
if they are, I am!

And now off to get more started - already running out of warm room and its
supposed to snow Friday!

joan vibert
windwalker farm
ottawa, kansas

p.s. thanks for the line on vinegar jars.






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