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- From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:28:06 -0500
I think change will come slowly, as prices
for oil-based products rise. There’s nothing like money to change behavior.
But down the road we’ll look back and think it was fast (for those young
enough!). I just hope it doesn’t look tragic by then. Of course, by then,
the prices you charge may be different too. Bill William H. Shoemaker Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops 630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610 From:
market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of SaladG AT aol.com 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 |
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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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