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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] seed sources
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:34:40 -0400
Back about Labor Day there was a question about where
companies like High Mowing and Baker Creek get their seed. I responded about
High Mowing as best I knew. That response finally crossed Tom Stearns’
computer, and here is his reply: What a great job you did! We grow
about 25% of the seed on our farm, about 50% comes from our growers in the Thanks, Tom Tom Stearns, President High Mowing Organic Seeds www.highmowingseeds.com Center for an Agricultural Economy www.hardwickagriculture.org Phone: (802) 472-6174 ext. 114 Cell: (802) 224-6301 Fax: (802) 472-3201 And my original response: High Mowing, to my knowledge, contracts
with individuals to grow some seed for them. They also produce some seed
themselves. They buy seed from growers in the western Beth Spaugh Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com Garden fresh vegetables, organically grown, and pastured
chicken, duck, and geese "How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how
the world is used." - Wendell Berry "Without power over our food, any notion of democracy
is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe |
- [Market-farming] seed sources, Beth Spaugh, 10/14/2009
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