Market Farming

["Dori Green" <dorigreen00 AT hotmail.com>]

X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Jun 2001 14:52:38.0317 (UTC) 
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This was one of the reasons I selected a hardscrabble hilltop farm instead 
of one down in the river valley (next to all those sprayed fields).

Then the guy who owned the vacant land to the north built an auction house 
and a home.  Not too bad.

Except that despite repeated warnings from the EPA, he continues to 
periodically get rid of auction leftovers in an open incinerator pit -- 
usually when the wind brings it right over my raised beds and into my house. 
 He almost always starts the fire just before dark on a day with rain 
forecast for the next day so nobody will notice the smoke, I guess.

Beyond the fact that my gardens are organic (though not certified), I have 
asthma and multiple chemical sensitivities.  I started having trouble 
breathing almost immediately, my eyes were swollen almost shut the next 
morning, and my joints are still swollen to almost three times their normal 
size (and yes they hurt and no I'm not getting much work done this week).  
God only knows what long-term damage he did to me with that fire.

I really don't want to get into a war with my next-door neighbor -- 
especially since he's now the dog warden and my young dog does wander over 
there to visit once in a while when I think she's with me in the field.

But suffering in silence is likely to kill me.

Why the heck people can't just have some consideration for the lives of 
their neighbors is just beyond my comprehension.

Dori Green
Ash Grove Community Farm
Corning, NY

http://www.ic.org/agrove

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