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  • From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training
  • Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:45:36 -0600

I believe it Alison. After seeing you and Paul talk about it, it’s hard to imagine you two without a garden around you!

 

Bill

 

 

 

I've always grown too.  Paul too.  I think it's what make a good market grower - we can't NOT GROW.  Maybe we can suppress it for a while, but not for long. Must be something genetic!  We have talked about what we would do if we had just our own garden for our own food, and believe it would have to be AT LEAST 1/2 acre.  Can't imagine growing fewer than 100 tomatoes, for instance - there are just too many we NEED!!  And, all the new varieties that are begging to be tried each year!  We may cut back, grow more of the most profitable crops, etc. as we get older, but can't imagine ever not growing!

 

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of William H Shoemaker
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:18 AM
To: 'Market Farming'
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training

 

I’m old enough to consider retirement down the road a few years (if my pension survives!). But I won’t quit working. I’ll probably join your ranks as a market farmer and I’ll be keen to use GAP as a management tool. I’m considering it for our University research farm. I’ve always been a grower (research plots; gardens; my mother accidentally hit me in the forehead with the back end of a hoe when I was about 7. That’s what sealed my fate!).  I’ll probably grow things around my grave!

 

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu




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