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Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source
- 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 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, _______________________________________________
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[Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source,
grizzdover, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source, Etienne Goyer, 01/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source,
Marie Kamphefner, 01/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source, Road's End Farm, 01/25/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source,
Lorri Mason, 01/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source,
Road's End Farm, 01/25/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source, grizzdover, 01/25/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source,
Sisters of the Soil, 01/25/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source, Dave or Kathy Campbell, 01/26/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Certified Organic Sweet Potato slip source,
Road's End Farm, 01/25/2010
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