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- From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: organic? not likely!
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 08:36:37 -0600
Jacqueline,
I hear what you are saying, and there has to be a remedy to such a
situation.
First, are you certain that she is promoting all of it as organic, or
just what she grew?
Second, I think your advice about certification is good for assurance.
However, even with certification, a person could cheat - could get their
fields certified and then ship in stuff, claiming it was grown on the land.
I do want to caution you that there are people out there like me who do
grow organically, but have no certification. As we discussed earlier on
this list, it is not always a good financial decision to get certified when
one is so small. I do not cheat, do not resell others' produce.
So, honesty always figures in.
If you are sure you have your facts, then perhaps a letter to this
woman, telling your experience of some customers who are looking for organic
produce and why, for instance your customer with cancer.
Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai <potzkai AT hotmail.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 8:17 AM
Subject: [market-farming] organic? not likely!
> Hi, up the road about 1/2 a mile is a woman with a small fruit stand -
> makes fantastic sales. She's growing on one acre and her father has a
small
> farm. The problem is that in order for her to sell so much variety she
and
> dad have been going to other farmers and buying their produce (tree fruits
> and berries and some vegies) then selling at the fruit stand with large
> organic signs everywhere in about a 1/4 mile radius. They even bought
> non-organic blueberries off the backend of a semi-truck from Vancouver (a
> large metropolitan area in BC). He tried to sell some to me and said the
> lady up the road just bought some for resale.
>
> I just want your input as to your thoughts on this and how you would
handle
> it . Mostly it just irks me. I had a customer who had just put a bundle
of
> money down on purifying his body (has cancer) and was looking for organic,
> last year I instructed him that to sell organic one must have a
certificate
> and he can ask to see it. I don't like to see innocent people get hurt.
> Jacqueline
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organic? not likely!,
Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: organic? not likely!, Del Williams, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, William Barry, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, William Barry, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, William Barry, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jeffery Blake, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/10/2001
- Re: organic? not likely!, Bill & Linda Barry, 02/10/2001
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