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  • From: "Rainbow's End Farms & Orchards" <rainbowsend AT swva.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: NY Times: Small Organic Farmers Pull Up Stakes
  • Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:38:23 -0700


I can see a time when the certified organic label
becomes yet another bureaucratic miasma affordable
and administratable by only the largest of
operations. That's just great for them, because I
really have little tolerance of the tedious
hairsplitting ad nauseum of much of what I have
read as now being required to be called organic.
For me organic is a common sense approach with its
basis upon preserving and developing life in the
soil and, thereby, more healthy foods. I guess I
would call this naturally organic as opposed to
certified organic. Whatever term or phrase, I
believe there are enough of us of a common mind to
easily "do our own thing" and do so on such a
level nationally to make a considerable impact
upon developing a common sense alternative.
Rainbows End Farms and Orchards
880 Central Academy Road
Stuart, Virginia 24171
276-694-4324
----- Original Message -----
From: "RDH" <rdhopkins AT americanpasturage.com>
To: "Market Farming"
<market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 8:39 AM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: NY Times: Small
Organic Farmers Pull Up Stakes


Funny you should mention this. I just asked
another list serve about Heinze
ketchup and the possibility the corn syrup used in
the product could be GMO
free. It will not be long that U.S. corn will be
in the same predicament as
Canadian Canola, all contaminated.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Rainbow's End Farms & Orchards
[mailto:rainbowsend AT swva.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:17 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [market-farming] Re: NY Times: Small
Organic Farmers Pull Up
Stakes


I am not certified "organic" primarily due to the
cost of certification and a huge hesitancy to
submit to more bureaucracy and
regulations...although 99% of what I produce is
produced organically. I read recently of a major
manufacturer now carrying the certified organic
label on the ketchup and how the price was 30%
more. The basis of the article is that organic has
now become big business as the major corporations
see the market opportunity. I am not big business
and as a grower I choose to use the old school
approach to organic as representing soil
stewardship and responsible, sustainable, natural
farming. Maybe it is time for those of us who grow
organic, but don't feel the need for the
odiousness of the "certified organic" overhead to
agree upon a new terminology that is mutually
agreeable and standardize upon that as a de facto
national movement of OUR OWN.
Rainbows End Farms and Orchards
880 Central Academy Road
Stuart, Virginia 24171
276-694-4324



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