Market Farming

["Errol Castens" <castens AT peoplepc.com>]

Phil, you should have let him keep deceiving himself instead of customers.

 

It's folks like him that made it necessary, IMO, to have the USDA get involved in organics. It's the same principle as with a distant cousin who, after she and her husband retired from dairying, kept about five cows and milked by hand to sell to a small route of customers. I always suspected her standards of sanitation, but when I saw her salvaging used plastic milk jugs at an illegal dump -- not knowing whether they had contained only milk or maybe pesticides, and probably only intending to give them a cursory rinsing anyway -- I knew at that moment why the gov't was in the food inspection business.

 

Errol Castens

Oxford, Mississippi

 

----- Original Message -----

From: HackettShark AT aol.com

 

A little trivia;  I had a vendor show up at a maket selling cantaloupe and watermelon with a sign reading, No chemicals at all used on our farm.  The sigh was stuck in a bucket of sand the bucket read DF Treflan.  I told him he was not very convincing as far as believing his sign

Phil ---