Market Farming

["William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>]

I just wonder if there are older, retired farmers around whose memories stretch back to time when farming was much more diverse and less fossil-fuel oriented. They might be your neighbors and looking for something to get involved in that would contribute. I’ve known folks like that who felt that agriculture passed them by and their sense of worth was diminished as a result. To see that their rich knowledge of a more labor-oriented, yet efficient kind of farm management was appreciated might be motivation for them to help younger folks recover local food production. Does this make sense to anyone?

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu

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Just to be clear, I absolutely love Gene's book on small scale grains.  My only objection is that it's old enough (1970s) that his equipment references are out of date.  I recall at one point he references the Sears catalog as a source for some of that equipment.  If only!  Very frustrating for someone gearing up to grow, but then can't find the equipment to do so.  And so far, our attempts to harvest by hand just wasn't a good use of our limited time.  I wonder if he'd consider updating that book with some newer equipment sources or ideas.  Other than that, his book is in my Top 10 favorites of all time.

 

Richard - I haven't gotten all the way through your two postings this morning, but THANK YOU for taking the time to write it all out.  Sharing all this info will undoubtedly help a lot of folks, who in turn can share with others.  That's what it's all about.
Kathryn Kerby

frogchorusfarm.com

Snohomish, WA

 

In a message dated 1/13/2011 7:53:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, dlareau AT tds.net writes:

http://grassvalleygrains.com/
Another resource or model to emulate

http://www.friendsoffamilyfarmers.org/?p=540
great looking organization...

Gene Logsdon's book is also great
http://www.amazon.com/Small-Scale-Grain-Raising-Gene-Logsdon/dp/0878571477


Zephyros Farm and Garden
Daphne Yannakakis and Don Lareau
11466 3725 Rd.
Paonia, Co. 81428
970-527-3636
www.zephyrosfarmandgarden.com
dlareau AT tds.net



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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Growing Small Grains for CSA and Market

A couple of years ago someone contacted me about a seriously heirloom
wheat growing project in New England. I've forgotten the details. I
think this was a breeding project based on very ancient European
wheat. Small farms and farmers were involved in this project.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Allan in WV where we are doomed to repeat our GOOGLE searches...
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