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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Tomato Spacing (Grepp AT wmconnect.com)
2. America's Organic Standards Under Attack (Pat Meadows)
3. Re: Recipe Handouts (Windsoap AT aol.com)
4. Re: market scales -- advice wanted (Craig Gilbert)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:47:06 EDT
From: Grepp AT wmconnect.com
Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Tomato Spacing
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
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Roger,

I've tried 18" spacing for tomatos, but it is a lot of work to keep the
tomatos from getting too bushy. At a close spacing you should remove the
suckers
to keep the plants from crowding out each other. I also tried 24" and they
were still crowded together making harvesting the tomatos a challenge. It
seems
that no matter how much space that I give the tomatos, they seem to want to
use
it all. I did notice that the plants were a lot taller than I thought they
would be and I keep ending up with a tomato hedge. This year I am trying 30"
spacing. I'll see how much space they use.

I have noticed that the same variety can grow to different sizes from one
year to another.

Garry Repp
Erie, PA
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:01:14 -0400
From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
Subject: [Market-farming] America's Organic Standards Under Attack
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: ALERT (US): America's Organic Standards Under
Attack
From: "GRACE Public Fund" <alerts AT gracepublicfund.org>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:51:19 -0400

http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm

USDA'S NATIONAL ORGANIC PROGRAM (NOP) HAS ANNOUNCED
CONTROVERSIAL NEW DIRECTOVES ON NATIONAL ORGANIC STANDARDS.

Over the past few weeks America's organic standards have
once again come under heavy attack. First the USDA's NOP
announced on April 14 that they would no longer monitor or
police "organic" labels on non-agricultural products,
literally opening the door for unscrupulous companies to put
bogus organic labels on products such as fish, body care
products, pet foods, fertilizer, and clothing.

In addition, the USDA will now permit pesticides on crops,
artificial growth hormones to be injected into cows, and
mercury and PCB's in fishmeal fed to cattle.

PESTICIDES
The USDA has now stated that as long as the farmer and the
organic certifier don't know the specific ingredients of the
pesticides applied to the "organic" plants, the crops can be
sold as "organic". To make matters worse, it is not required
by law for pesticide companies to list the ingredients on
their products (it's considered proprietary information), so
the farmers rarely know what the specific ingredients are.

ARTIFICIAL GROWTH HORMONE
The USDA has announced that individual cows can be treated
with any kind of drug at any time, including synthetic
growth hormones, but milk can only be sold from that cow 12
months after that treatment. The problem with this directive
is that it opens up the door for split operation factory
style dairy farms, whereby organic and non-organic dairy
operations are carried out simultaneously, and hundreds if
not thousands of "organic" dairy cows are kept in intensive
confinement. Not only are industrial sized dairy farms bad
for the environment, but they inevitably give rise to sick
cows who have to be treated with drugs. Of course many of
these drugs build up in the body fat and are released in the
milk and meat from these animals. If this new directive is
allowed to stand, organic milk could potentially contain
residues of drugs and hormones.

MERCURY AND PCB'S IN FEED FED TO CATTLE
The USDA also stated on April 28 that non-organic fishmeal
can be fed to cattle, and the beef can still be sold as
"organic". Fishmeal is used as a protein supplement on
conventional cattle ranches, but it frequently contains
mercury, PCBs and other synthetic chemicals. Mercury and
PCBs are "bioacculmulators" meaning they are concentrated
and stored in the "meat" of the animal.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm
Click above to go to the Organic Consumers Association to
send a letter to Secretary Anne Veneman, voicing your
concerns over the degradation of our organic standards.
These changes were made without any public comment period,
so now is the time to voice your concerns!


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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:22:58 EDT
From: Windsoap AT aol.com
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Recipe Handouts
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
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In a message dated 5/12/2004 4:56:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
SAndrews AT AcademicBookServices.com writes:
Does anyone have any recipes to add that would use any of the following;

mint
Sorry to be so long with this one and thanks, Shirley for good-sounding
recipes!
The only recipe I have for mint besides jelly is a Lebanese salad:
TOMATO SALAD

2 cups fresh chopped tomatoes
1 cup finely chopped sweet mild (Vidalia type) onions
2 cups Pita or Lebanese bread torn into 1" pieces*
1/2 cup chopped mint leaves
dress with a lemon-olive oil dressing

* we sometimes substitute believe it or not! leftover fried okra! More
American, dontcha know and really delicious!

To honor the harvest of the first row of new red potatoes, I developed and
am
handing out this recipe. Amazing how people are going back and grabbing up
a
few more potatoes!


POTATO STEW

2 SLICES BACON
SMALLISH FRESH ONION WITH TOP, CHOPPED
= STALK CELERY, CHOPPED
2 CUPS (LEFTOVER) GOOD MASHED POTATOES
4 CUPS NEW POTATOES, BOILED, PEELED AND CUT UP
2 TSP CHICKEN BOUILLON PASTE OR 2 CUBES
GENEROUS GRINDING OF BLACK PEPPER
4 CUPS MILK

SAUTE THE BACON AND REMOVE, COOK THE ONION AND CELERY IN THE FAT UNTIL
TENDER
BUT DO NOT BROWN. SEASON WITH THE BLACK PEPPER. STIR IN A LITTLE OF THE
MILK AND THEN THE MASHED POTATOES. ADD THE BOUILLON AND DISSOLVE. ADD THE
REST
OF THE MILK AND BRING TO A SIMMER, STIRRING FREQUENTLY. ADD IN THE CUT UP
POTATO AND THE BACON, CRUMBLED. HEAT GENTLY UNTIL WARM BUT DO NOT BOIL.
CHECK
FOR SEASONING. SERVE WARM OR COLD, BUT NOT REALLY HOT. GARNISH WITH THINLY
SLICED GREEN ONION STEM.

Bon appetit!
Wendy Akin
Akin Farm
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:57:37 -0400
From: "Craig Gilbert" <GarlicBed AT Comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] market scales -- advice wanted
To: <ksutherland AT hampshire.edu>, "Market Farming"
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I suggest a hanging scale, look on Ebay.


----- Original Message -----
From: Karen Sutherland
To: 'Market Farming'
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] market scales -- advice wanted


Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions about market scales -
where to buy, where not to buy, what is good, what to avoid, what features
you are glad for, what features you rarely use, etc.? Here's what I "know"
I need so far: affordable, transportable, rain-safe (or use within
waterproof bag?), battery or solar powered, accurate but not necessarily
certified for trade, able to go from < lb to at least 5 lbs.



Many thanks,



Karen Sutherland

Roots Farm

Organic Produce

Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs

Cockrane, Dominica





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