Market Farming

[Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:10:05 -0500, you wrote:

>I am doing this because i really believe that more citizens need to get
>involved in their own growing at home in these harder times.  We live in
>an area where people have never had good shopping anywhere nearby, and
>their farms used to sustain community only a generation or two in the
>past.  It is a poor county, and many cannot afford the fresh food prices
>in the local markets anymore, but do have space to grow at least some, if
>not most of their foods - like their ancestors did.
>  

We're in a very similar area - but in the northern Appalachians.  

It seems many people here don't even have the *idea* of eating fresh
veggies or salad stuffs.  It's just not something they think of, or do.  I
see peoples' carts in the supermarkets and it seems they rarely include
fresh veggies.  We very rarely see a vegetable garden either.

No local restaurants use fresh veggies.  None.  They probably don't want to
use fresh veggies either - they don't have to, to be competitive ....since
none of them do it.

It's really very sad.  

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania
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