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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: rock farming
  • Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:45:17 -0600


As Kevin said, you can use a rock-picker. They look like and work similar to
a potato harvester.

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Liz Pike <liz AT marketfarming.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: [market-farming] rock farming


>Switching farms has been quite an adventure. I've gone from coastal
>sand/clay/loam to ROCKS. Big ones. (I made the mistake of calling them
>boulders to my partner who's from upstate New York. I'll never live that
>down.)
>
>Anyway. We're starting from scratch here, on land that's only had horses
>and hay. No crops, no gardens, no cultivating. Soil tests are in the
>works, but my biggest problem now, are those darn rocks. How do you deal
>with them?? Do's and don'ts greatly appreciated!!
>
>Liz
>
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