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- From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:46:22 -0500
From: "Pat Meadows" <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
> Our conditions are those of a very rural and quite isolated
> area which is nevertheless not a farming area, with the
> exception of a bunch of dying dairy farms.
Agriculture is still our main industry in Tioga County, with 64% of the
land wooded and 33% in farms, 3% 'urbanized' (if you can call a town of
3,000 that). Dairy farming is 90% of the agricultural income. Anything
other than forests, pasture and grain crops isn't even enough to register
on the charts.
Apparently this area used to be a major producer of tobacco and celery.
There are certain crops that grow
especially well here, like leeks, onion, garlic, potatoes, probably
cabbage if I
could keep the %(&^ bugs out. Corn is everywhere (mostly field corn).
Grains grow well here. Beans do well, summer and winter squash does
exceptionally well. I have to baby the tomatoes and melons, and I grow the
peppers and cucumbers in the greenhouse. But it's certainly doable. If we
could only convince more people...
Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem
, (continued)
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Lucy Goodman, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lucy Goodman, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
TxBeeFarmer, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Brigette Leach, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Alliums, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Cherry Tree Farms, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Alliums, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Pat Meadows, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Pat Meadows, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
TxBeeFarmer, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lucy Goodman, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
TxBeeFarmer, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Tradingpost, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Pat Meadows, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Marty Kraft, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Tradingpost, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Pat Meadows, 01/29/2006
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