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  • From: mamica5 AT sssnet.com
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] good mottos
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:58:04 -0400 (EDT)

I like that motto too. I'm an early retiree married to an early retiree
and trying to keep up with college bills on less income than we had
before. I tried another route to getting employed more gainfully and
found that education expenses for myself and so called "license and
testing" dues were expenses going out and there was nothing coming in.
At least with the market there is something coming in and we do have
quality food.
The action part of that motto is what gets me past just walking around
looking at my stuff growing and trying to decide what next to do...when
there is soooooo much to do.

> 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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