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- From: Marty Kraft <martyk AT allspecies.org>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:08:03 -0600
I am frustrated by reading about this renaming issue. Learning to grow food
is difficult already. Why make it more so by confusing peeople with
differing names for the same thing. This is marketing deception to make a
buck and I don't like it.
Marty Kraft
Kansas City
> From: "Alliums" <garlicgrower AT green-logic.com>
> Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:23:45 -0500
> To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming
>
> Hi, Folks!
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> <<i was surprized to see on the list that Johnnies is renaming garlic ..
> this is totally unethical and may be illegal according to USDA regulations>>
>
> It's not illegal to name or re-name garlic -- there are very few USDA
> standards for garlic (not even grading standards!) since it is considered a
> minor crop.
>
> << I was wondering if the garlic seed foundation contacted Johnnies before
> they printed that.>>
>
> I'm sure David Stern had words with Johnnies beforehand -- everything I
> wrote is what David Stern said at the meeting. He also mentioned that the
> "Pink Music" being sold by Seeds of Change is actually the same Porcelain
> Music that we're all growing here in the Northeast -- it's just pink in NM
> because that's the way the garlic adapts to their climate. It's
> understandable to think that they have a different strain (and it appears
> from David's talk that they really did think they had developed something
> new), but the DNA fingerprinting is proving that they really don't.
>
> Now that the USDA collection has been fingerprinted, the whole naming issue
> is going to be huge. For instance, for those of us in the Northeast, the
> Porcelain garlics have done the best. Now, the DNA fingerprinting is
> showing that genetically, there is only one Porcelain garlic. I suggested
> that those of us who maintain collections simply cull our Porcelain
> "strains" to the one that performs the best for us. But, out of all those
> names, what the heck do we call it if Music=German Extra Hardy=German
> White=Georgia Crystal, etc?
>
> Life in the garlic world is just going to get more interesting -- and I'd
> like to see a whole lot more discussion about how the community is going to
> deal with fulsarium that getting bogged down in the variety/naming issue.
>
> Dorene
>
> Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth
>
> A mission of
> St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460
>
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[Market-farming] Re: Garlic Renaming,
Mark Ritter, 03/19/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Re: Garlic Renaming, Liz Pike, 03/19/2005
-
[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming, Marty Kraft, 03/20/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Allan Balliett, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Karen Sutherland, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Onion Sets,
Marie Kamphefner, 03/20/2005
- RE: [Market-farming] Onion Sets, Marie Kamphefner, 03/21/2005
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[Market-farming] RE: Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] RE: Garlic Renaming, road's end farm, 03/20/2005
-
[Market-farming] Onion Sets,
Marie Kamphefner, 03/20/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Joe Kames, 03/20/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming, Pat Meadows, 03/21/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Karen Sutherland, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
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