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  • From: KAKerby AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] good mottos
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 01:23:20 EDT

Bean meaning to tell you, Nan, that I love your motto at the bottom of each email.  Action really is the antidote to dispair.  We're at three markets a week now, and some days I wonder what I was thinking to sign up for this much work.  But both myself and my booth helper (aka best friend aka soul-sister) were corporate refugees not so long ago, wondering why no one would hire us and no one saw worth in our experience and life knowledge and skillset.  Then I said "heck, if no one will hire me, I'll go plant a bunch of veggies and sell 'em somewhere and make money that way!"  Well, as we all know it's a tad more complicated than that.  But there really is something empowering about growing something in beds that I built with my own hands, and then selling it to a group of folks who value that effort enough to pay me more than I'd ever think it was worth.  And my booth partner recently confided to me that my hiring her to help me in the market booth has given her a sense of purpose again, which she didn't know she had been missing until she found it again.  Now she's talking about planting enough next year to set up her own booth and having her own name out there on those veggies she knows she can grow.  Wow, now that's cool.  Maybe action is more than the antidote to despair.  Maybe it's a recipe for how to save the world.  One veggie at a time. 
 
Happy dreams, folks, and happy farming.  Whatever you're growing and wherever you're selling it, and despite whatever issues we're each facing (and we all have at least a few), I'm glad to be amongst folks out there being part of the solution, rather than sitting around whining about the problem.  :)
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
 
In a message dated 5/11/2010 10:08:32 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, NanHildreth AT riseup.net writes:
Action is the antidote to despair....
Joan Baez 




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