Market Farming

["Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>]

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