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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Jumping Into Farming
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:37:26 -0700


Sounds like you're off to a good start, Matt. Let me offer some resources
compiled on my page at
http://globalcircle.net/foodlife.htm . Please if you don't find what you
need, let me know and I'll hunt it down since I'm always adding more and have
a new version in the works now anyway.

paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau

That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] Candide

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>Marj,
>
>My situation is slightly different from yours, in that I have a friend
>who's letting me borrow as much land as I want (he has about 10 acres) for
>my veggie growing insanity. Up until 6 months ago, if you asked what I
>did, I'd tell you "computer programmer". If asked the same question now,
>I'd say "vegetable grower". I've wanted to grow stuff for a real long
>time and one day I woke up with the notion that I had to grow veggies and
>just decided to take the plunge. I'm about as "newbie" as they come. I
>have absolutely no idea how to go about doing any of this but that's
>actually part of the fun. I'm also only doing as much as I can afford.
>At the moment I've got enough area for about 121 beds (each 8x3 ft with a
>1ft path). Each bed might have 6-42 plants, depending on what's growing
>there.
>
>Plogging along and reading anything I can get my hands on, being able to
>ask questions on this mailing list (I found a local supplier of compost,
>by the way, $15 per yard -- thanks to everyone for the good advice), and
>trying things (sometimes with success, sometimes with failure) is, IMO,
>the best way to go. Plus, my point of view is different from most: I'm
>not growing veggies in order to make money, I'm making money in order to
>grow veggies. Lastly, I don't let doubt interfere with what I know is
>what I ought to be doing.
>
>Market gardening is an obsession and even though at the moment I have to
>support this addiction by still writing computer software, as soon as I'm
>able to earn a livlihood from the dirt, I'm going to dump the software
>stuff. The hardest part sofar is getting the seed planting timing correct
>so I have continuous production.
>
>So if it makes you feel any better, rest assured that there's at least one
>other nut-case market gardener out there who's thinkin' about the same
>stuff as you are. Don't worry about failure. Use "failure" as a way to
>learn and get better.
>
>Matt Cheselka
>Cosmic Lettuce And Other Fine Authentic Vegetables
>Rural Southeast Arizona
>






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