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- From: SaladG AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:54:44 EDT
Bill we have been working for a long time to get more organizations
involved in local foods and get more growers intrested in what we are trying to
do. I have one school that is buying all that we as growers can furnish
for their daily needs but it is very daunting. The demand is so
great that most of us can't even do one days supply of product to feed their
10,000 daily students. The packaging rules and cleaning rules are not the
problem, it's trying to find the growers that will work for a main goal,
everyone wants to try to control the whole account rather than work as a group
to supply the whole. Just the salad mix they use daily is over 100 pounds
a day 5 days a week, 60 case's of peppers a week, and etc. Very
difficult to try to find grower's and our problem we have a lot of local vendors
that feel as long as they have the product to sell what difference does it make
where it come's from, South America is ok to them. And it just keep's
going on and on. We do have a local foods director that is doing the
inspections and we are finding out that most are a lot of wind and so called
grower's just are not there.
Phil from Iowa
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[Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel,
SaladG, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel,
William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel, Pamela Crowe, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel, Nan Hildreth, 05/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel,
William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
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