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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
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- 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.... |
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[Market-farming] good mottos,
KAKerby, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Steve Diver, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, BarbaraJ, 05/12/2010
- [Market-farming] New farmers was good mottos, Nan Hildreth, 05/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, mamica5, 05/12/2010
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- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, KAKerby, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
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