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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Local Food
  • Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:02:06 -0400

While I agree with this, many "organic" farmers are no longer certified.
One of their last marketing opportunities is to push "Buy Local" which is
much easier to sell than "buy local organic". For whatever reason, people
seem to be more sympathetic to the transportation/fossil fuel debate than
the organic one. At least they are around here.

I don't think we organic movement farmers need to let ourselves be defined by the federal government, especially not if it means promoting conventional farms in the process.

As well as educating the public on "buying local' I feel we need to educate them on 'authentic food' as Eliot Coleman did on this list a while back. We also need to talk about ecological sustainable farming and what it does to clean the air and to promote biodiversity, especially songbird populations, in the neighborhood.

The biggest thing we need to do is to find affordable ways of substantiating the nutritional value of our food so we are no longer demeaned by this 'a peach is a peach is a peach' pricing. If propertly done, biological farming produces a product with substantial more nutrition and taste than local conventional growers can ever hope to do. We can win out on taste, as Scott Crandall has does with tomatoes at the San Francisco farmers mareket, but that proof of nutritional density remains outside of our grasp. (due to the expense of testing).

-Allan




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