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- From: Penny Trinca <penny-trinca AT ut.nacdnet.org>
- To: market farming list <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: land in Arkansas
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:04:29 -0700
HI All, My name is Penny Trinca and I am a perennial lurker, this is my
first "post" so I hope I'm doing it right. As a bit of a bio- I have a
tiny farm (PennyFeather Farm) in Northern Utah where I grow and sell
vegetables, flowers, chickens, eggs, ponies, and rabbits. Today it is
grey and we have over a foot of snow on the ground. I'm miserable
waiting on spring, just keep turning the pages of my seed catalogs. I
manage the gardeners' market here, and have a full time job with the
Soil Conservation District. With the District, I mosty try to get
cost-share funding to help farmers pay for installing best management
practices (like buffer strips, manure management, no-till cultivation,
wind breaks, etc) and help them design the systems. A group of us here
are trying to fund a community commercial kitchen "a kitchen business
incubator" so people who want to produce a value added product can make
it in an inspected location and then be able to sell wholesale or
retail. I plan to raise pastured broilers this year and also will have
to organize fund and build a "mobile (or stationary) poultry processing
unit" since there are NO poultry processing businesses in this whole end
of Utah.
I am writing to notify this group of folks that I have about 20 acres of
abandoned farm ground in north western arkansas that I would rent/lease
to a sustainable farmer person. I love the land and have a big chunk of
my soul tied up in it so won't sell, but would love to have it used and
cared for. I think it would grow a fine crop of organic blue or straw
berries. If you know of anyone interested, have em drop me an email
directly (not to the list). penny-trinca AT ut.nacdnet.org .
Thanks, please keep posting news of sunshine and spring planting so I
can enjoy it vicariously till it gets here!
Penny
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land in Arkansas,
Penny Trinca, 02/13/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: land in Arkansas, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 02/13/2001
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