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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Margaret L Wilson <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] owning land
  • Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:37:19 -0500

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 18:04:13 -0800, you wrote:


>
>I was at the little local market yesterday. A 4 ounce package of organic
>mesclun mix was over $3.60. I don't shop for much. I have 2 freezers full
>of meat, veggies and fruit and potatoes and other roots in storage, Prices
>seemed outrageous since last time I looked. The economy is in bad shape here
>and people are hurting. I saw an elderly lady with a list pricing items and
>putting them back. I was listening while standing in line. Most people
>were using charge cards to buy their groceries. I will donate extra produce
>to the elderly here next summer. Ironically, it is very rural here and
>almost everyone could have a small garden, a cage of rabbits and a couple
>laying hens. I guess they are forgotten skills.
>

This is true here as well.

Many of the elderly, of course, no longer have the physical
stamina to garden or even to care for hens or rabbits: they
are very frail and/or quite ill. They might remember how to
garden: but they can't actually do it anymore.

I'm just *beginning* to not have the physical ability to
garden myself (by virtue of illness, not of age). It is not
a good feeling. Not at all. I have to 'garden smart' to do
it at all.

It would be good if - in addition to donating produce to the
elderly - someone in each community taught people (who
wanted to learn) how to garden and helped the elderly and/or
ill establish and maintain gardens.

Pat
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