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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Our first regular restaurant order!
  • Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:28:43 -0700


Must ask you about the water in southeast AZ. Irrigation mandatory? That's
not far from me in west central NM, high desert. We have great water, shallow
and neutral pH, but no rain most of the year.

paul AT largocreekfarms.com
http://medicinehill.net

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On 12/3/2004 at 7:15 PM cheselka AT theriver.com wrote:

>Jackie,
>
>Your enthusiasm is very inspiring! I, too, have had similar experinces
>with the lettuce (and other veggies) I grow and sell. My customers
>*demand* it! They also call me on the phone and tell me war stories about
>lettuce they find at the supermarket. Even the organic stuff is pretty
>yucky, I hear. One of my goals for the next 12 months is a acquire a local
>restaurant as a regular client. Alas, I'm still learning the ins and outs
>of regular, fairly large volume veggie growing. But I'm getting better at
>it and hopefully this winter will give me a chance to really figure it all
>out. (Being in southeast AZ I can grow year-round).
>
>Maybe my theory that we Americans have lost our sense of taste isn't
>exactly true and that if people actually come into contact with great food,
>they'll forget about the "good enough" veggies at the supermarkets and go
>for my "best I've ever tasted" veggies instead. Sofar my experience has
>been the latter -- now I just need to increase production to reach a larger
>number of people!
>
>Have a good weekend, folks! Stay warm and dry!
>
>Matt Cheselka
>Cosmic Lettuce
>
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