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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: To certify or not to certify
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:36:18 -0600


Alison,
Would you be willing to share the list of qualifiers? I love the idea
of having our own folk term. Power to the people!!!!

Jill
> Good Monday morning!
>
> We have looked at this question for a year or so now, and I don't think we
> are alone in weighing whether we do the organic certification or not. We
do
> believe that if we do not certify organic, that whatever we LABEL
ourselves,
> should be a label that a lot of us share to aid in the education of
> consumers process. To that end, have any of you read the article in the
> current issue of Mother Earth News by Eliot Coleman? He suggests the term
> "Authentic Food" and has a list of how food would qualify as such. He
> invites all growers to join him in using the term. One of the folks from
the
> Kerr Center brought it to our attention, and we thought we'd pass it along
> for more conversation. Any thoughts?
>
> Paul and Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm






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