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  • From: Nan Hildreth <NanHildreth AT riseup.net>
  • To: Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel
  • Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:23:19 -0500

Phil,

Can you go out to the countryside and promise a market if folks will grow for you? Our retired neighbor in the woods grows for the fun of it and then gives it away and lets it rot. Conventional though. And here in the woods, 70 miles from Houston, there are no jobs. Folks commute daily 25 miles to Huntsville to work in the prison or 70 miles to Houston. But these country folks are better gardeners than a city gal like me.

Nan in Texas

At 12:54 PM 5/12/2010, SaladG AT aol.com wrote:
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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