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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] Market-farming Digest, Vol 87, Issue 42
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:16:45 -0400


On Apr 16, 2010, at 12:06 PM, sora AT coldreams.com wrote:


We're thinking of planting strawberries in a high tunnel using black
plastic on the beds to cut down on weeds but I'm wondering if the beds
will get too hot in the summer. I guess white plastic is an option
too.

I attended the Ecofarm conference in California a few years ago and we did
a farm tour of a huge strawberry operation. No tunnels, California and
all, but plastic with holes cut for each plant was the norm. They were
using different colors of plastic to regulate the harvest....black red
green and grey....My concern was although organic you could see literally
miles of plastic. I asked what happened to it, and the reply was that it
deteriorated yearly and was "thrown out". So much for sustainable!
Sora at Paradise Valley Organics where it's
finally sunny and warm


If there's that much of it, I'm surprised there's nobody recycling agricultural plastics in that area. They do have to be recycled separately from the standard household recycling system, but it is being done in some areas -- I just found out (rather too late) that there's a plastics recycling drop off being held not that far from here this spring; what little I used of it has unfortunately gone to the landfill, but I'm making a note to check next fall before I toss it in case they'll be doing it again.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly (where Frontiernet finally got the internet service back up after close to two days without)

Fresh-market organic produce, small scale







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