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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets
  • Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:23:49 -0600


Joan,
What a great idea! I would love to have the benefit of your hard
work:^)!
But really, you are right - it is a good tool for informing vendors and
customers. It would be a good handout at our new cooperative too, which has
local as one of its goals too!

Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: Joan Vibert <joan AT windwalker-farm.com>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets


> 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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