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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:14:37 -0400
On Apr 13, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Allan.Balliett wrote:
The document as a whole is a bit confounding, and I'm not going to try to tackle all of it, but a few comments on portions of it are interspersed below:
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If I were writing up a list of things for locavores to ask, I think I'd focus first on questions designed to determine whether the product had actually been grown by the vendor, or if not where specifically the product did come from. If it was grown by the vendor's next door neighbor, this is not the same thing as if it was bought at the nearest large city's wholesale auction. Questions focusing on growing practices, if sensibly phrased, can do double duty as if the vendor doesn't know how something was grown this casts doubt on that person's being the grower -- although I know cases in which the seed source, for instance, is only known to the family member who orders the seed; the family member at market may not be able to answer all the questions, even though the produce was genuinely grown on their farm. They left out what seems to me a fairly obvious question: can the customers visit the farm? While there might be good reasons why this isn't possible in a particular case, a "yes" answer almost certainly means that there actually is a farm there growing at least most of what they claim to be growing. -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly Fresh-market organic produce, small scale |
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Re: [Market-farming] green garlic
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- Re: [Market-farming] green garlic, maury sheets, 04/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] green garlic,
Carol Moss, 04/13/2010
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[Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Allan.Balliett, 04/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Marie Kamphefner, 04/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers, Allan.Balliett, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Etienne Goyer, 04/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
maury sheets, 04/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Allan.Balliett, 04/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers, maury sheets, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Allan.Balliett, 04/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers, Allan.Balliett, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
maury sheets, 04/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers, Road's End Farm, 04/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Marie Kamphefner, 04/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
BillOhio, 04/14/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers, Liz Pike, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
BillOhio, 04/14/2010
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[Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Allan.Balliett, 04/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Ryan Platte, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Tammy Jones, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Ryan Platte, 04/14/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers, Allan.Balliett, 04/14/2010
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- Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers, Ryan Platte, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Ryan Platte, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Tammy Jones, 04/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Vetting Local Producers,
Ryan Platte, 04/14/2010
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