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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] recession
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:12:43 -0500

Other things to consider:

Food scares have been recurring and significant. I think this is likely to
have an increasing effect, especially good for local producers supplying
local markets.

It may be a good year for selling seedlings, for all those who put the
recession together with food safety and want to grow more of their own.

--
Richard Robinson
http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/


On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:07:14 -0800 (PST), sora AT coldreams.com wrote:
>
>> How do you think the recession will affect sales at Farmers Markets?
>>
> Andy King
>
> Ahhh...the big question.  No way to really know but my thinking for my rural
> market is to stress the Victory garden concept and use the recession to get
> more of our avid gardeners to become vendors.
> Barter...Sharing...Coming Together...  I think with all the national
> publicity on local foods that the public has found its local food supply and
> will not give it up.  When there is no money for anything else, people still
> have to eat.
> Sora at Paradise Valley Organics, doing anything to avoid working on taxes
>
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