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- From: SaladG AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:03:02 EDT
It is very discouraging to live in the bread basket of the nation and also
live in a food desert because of the fact of nothing around us but big
corp agriculture. I have been working non stop for the past five
years with our local foods group to develop new growers in our area. I
have called on a number of schools at the college level at no avail. Lately we
have been working on college's and 2 year college's that have large culinary
department with an actual Dean. This has been working to get fresh
products to that college. A number of the chef's that have came out of this
relationship has prompted a lot of local sales at the restaurant they are
working at. Every little bit helps.
It seem's to be a very slow process to get an individual interested in
being a grower, and the biggest problem is the money thing. They are not
convinced they can make a living on a small amount of land using very low
investment. One problem is some of the college's and University's have not
really got behind the growers that are doing winter growing and the fact that we
can grow food in the corn belt.
We have been putting a lot of our energy's it trying to get project's
started in our grade school's. Challenging the young mind's and making
them look at how our foods are being grown, and just really how easy it is to
grow so many, many things on a window sill, this seem's to be gaining interest
with parents but not with school administrations so we just keep slugging to get
some interest going in our local youth.
I went to our Vo Ag teacher and told him I would let their students
to visit our farm and show some alterative methods of agriculture, and after he
quit laughing he said no so that kindof give's you an idea of the challenges we
a facing here in western Iowa. There is so much good food that could be
grown in our area, we have top soil that run's about 16' deep.
No sense in reinventing the wheel, I feel we need to target our youth that
are still exploring their mind's for their future.
Phil from Iowa
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Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born
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Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born,
Pamela Crowe, 11/02/2010
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[Market-farming] Advice on Moving a greenhouse,
Jay Sleichter, 11/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Advice on Moving a greenhouse, Richard Robinson, 11/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Advice on Moving a greenhouse, Wendy's Produce, 11/02/2010
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[Market-farming] Advice on Moving a greenhouse,
Jay Sleichter, 11/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born, Mike Rock, 11/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born, Etienne Goyer, 11/05/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] A research project is born,
Richard Moyer, 11/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] A research project is born, Don Lareau, 11/02/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born,
KAKerby, 11/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born, idyllwild farm, 11/02/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born,
SaladG, 11/02/2010
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[Market-farming] Horseradish Question,
Richard Stewart, 11/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Horseradish Question, Richard Stewart, 11/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born,
andrea davis, 11/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born, Mike Rock, 11/03/2010
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[Market-farming] Horseradish Question,
Richard Stewart, 11/02/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] a research project is born,
Pamela Crowe, 11/02/2010
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