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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets
  • Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:06:14 -0600



-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: market-farming
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets


>On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:38:50 -0600 , "Wiediger, Alison"
><awiediger AT HART.k12.ky.us> wrote:
>
>
>>Peddlers have all but ruined our Farmers' Market.
>
>Start a new market even if its a small one - depend on quality and
>word of mouth for long term success. I"ll bet that's what you end up
>having to do eventually.
>
>>The local extension folks
>>tend to encourage peddling "so there is more variety for the customer to
>>choose from"
>
>Unbelievable. This is expected behavior from an organization that
>fires its pro-organic agents for expressing their views in a public
>forum and encourages their clients to poison their yards and gardens
>with pesticides. Idiots all.



As someone who represents Extension I resent the broad brush you use to
paint us. There certainly are some in Extension who I might think are idiots
but there are many, many more I respect, who believe in the mission of
outreach to the public with research-based information. There are some who
enthusiastically represent sustainable ag, organic ag, eco-ag. There are
others who truly believe in conventional ag. As educated professionals they
all have a right to represent their professional views, just as I do when I
write to this forum. But I think it's unfair to call them all idiots. In
fact, I think you close the door on some very good opportunities if you
don't engage with them in a dialogue. You might find that some of them are
much more helpful than your bias leads you to believe.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center




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