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- From: "Dawn M. Ripley" <ripley AT iglou.com>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Cc: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Bashing Extension
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:10:09 -0500
At 05:45 PM 02/07/2001 -0500, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar wrote:
>As a student of a land grant, researching soil microbiology specifically
>directed for organic farms, with the *support of a conventional-ag*
>committee, I agree. Mr. Lawrence, I feel insulted and angry on their
>behalf as well as mine and I would like to see that apology. Your
>explanation that your terrible words were not directed at *all* extension
>comes a little late.
>Victoria Bhavsar
>
>
You know, I was going to stay out of this fray, but I have to weigh in with
Victoria.
There's no excuse for censorship of the list, regardless of your opinions,
Lawrence. It's entire too easy to throw the baby out with the bathwater, so
to speak. I'm a county agent who is learning to practice what she regularly
preaches (in developing farmers' markets and community food systems and with
her Master Gardener program) about organic, small-scale, sustainable
production techniques--on 78 acres in southern Indiana, on my family's farm.
There are indeed a few of us, like Victoria and others, who continue to work
from within an admittedly cumbersome, often slow-to-change organization
because we know the power that organization COULD have to work for good, and
for change--and sometimes actually does.
Lighten up, Lawrence--life's too short. And thanks, Victoria, for reminding
me that I haven't been speaking up enough of late.
Dawn
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Dawn M. Ripley
County Extension Agent for Urban Programs
Cooperative Extension Service, Jefferson County
8012 Vinecrest Avenue, Suite 1
Louisville, Kentucky 40222-4690
(502) 425-4482
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Re: Bashing Extension,
Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, 02/07/2001
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- Re: Bashing Extension, Dawn M. Ripley, 02/07/2001
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