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  • From: "Dave or Kathy Campbell" <dkcampbell AT southslope.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: deepgrass AT hughes.net
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:55:31 -0600

This year I’ve ordered certified ORGANIC sweet potato slips, and also onion plants, from Bruce Pape (www.deepgrassnursery.com) in Delaware.  They are expensive, but they are certified organic by the state of Delaware.  I chatted with Bruce on the phone and learned his greenhouses supply plants to local organic farmers in Delaware, as well as to some Amish farmers in northern Pennsylvania.

==Dave Campbell / Tiffin IA, zone 5

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Sisters of the Soil
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:55 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source

 

I'm with Rivka.  I think "certified" on those sites refers to disease free, not organic.  In fact, I got a wild hair and emailed them all the other day to check.  Can't recall which off the top of my head, but two have already indicated that they do not provide certified organic slips.

 

We looked high and low for certified organic sweet potato sources last season, emailing many non-certified organic growers to inquire.  We found a small genetic preservationist operation, Sandhill Preservation Center in Iowa that has some pretty helpful growing information but limited amounts, http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/pages/sweetpotato_catalog.html  The other we found was Mapple in Canada, already suggested by Etienne- they do ship to the US, by the way, and told us they have for the past 14 years.  

 

Doreen

Sisters of the Soil, Boise Idaho

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net> wrote:

Lorri, are those actually certified organic? I can't find anything on any of those sites about organic certification.

 

The word "certified", by itself in a plant nursery context, often means "certified to be free of specific diseases". It doesn't mean "certified organic" unless it specifically states "organic" as well as "certified". If you want both certified organic and certified disease free, you need double certified plants (seed potatoes, for instance, often come with one certification but not the other, but some come double certified both as organic and against disease). The seller who has double certified stock available usually says so clearly.

 

 

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly

Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

 

 

On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Lorri Mason wrote:



Certified Organic Sweet Potatoe Sources:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:24 PM, <grizzdover    gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All,

I'm just wondering what sources folks know of for certified organic
sweet potato slips.  The gentleman that owned the greenhouse where we
have gotten bare-root slips in the past has passed away and they are
only selling them in their non-certified potting soil now.

Thanks in advance,
Ben Saunders
Turtle Farm
Granger, Iowa

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