Market Farming

["Vic & Pat Jackowsky" <jackow AT gmi.net>]

Bill, I would be interested in how your troughs pan out.  Maybe we can learn
a new trick for watering our horses and pigs since someone around here
forgets to turn off the faucet. :) Sounds interesting.

Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "WB Carver" <wbcarver AT marketfarming.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: Summary: 101 Uses for an old shower curtain


>
> >
> >Hey Bill, I've come up with an idea for a broken toilet, use it as a
flower
> >pot, it will "back-up" the notion of "reduce, reuse and recycle" ;<}
> >Also
> >it would make the customers remember the potty fruit stand.
>
> Hi Jacqueline,
>
> I guess that is "Way Better" than having them remember the "Fruity Pot
> Stand"
>
> I just wouldn't want people to think I was some kind of "Crack Pot"
>  (Sorry - Had to say it)
>
> Seriously though, after reading your post this morning, I started a "list
of
> lists" of things that would make good "Reusables" (I may really do that
book
> after all) and a  little later the broken toilet idea hit home. (No pun
> intended)  As I was watering the horses, I thought about salvaging the
float
> valve from a broken toilet for an automatic fill valve in the new watering
> troughs we are planning to build this week. (Already have the barrels and
> the plumbing, just have to build the frames)  I'll let you know how it
works
> out.
>
> Being a pack-rat, by nature, I save everything. I also can't stand waste.
So
> It is almost an obsession with me to see what I can salvage or reuse.
>
> I replied off list, because as I was typing this, Liz came in and reminded
> me how close this was getting to the bed pan thread of a few weeks ago.
As
> quiet as the list has been the last few days, and with this being at least
> loosely tied to Market Farming, I kinda thought it was OK, but I will
defer
> to her sense of fair play.
>
> Hope all is well with you,
>
> Bill Carver
> Laughing Brook Farm
> Westfield, NC
> wbcarver AT marketfarming.com
> http://www.laughingbrookfarm.com
>
>
>
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