Market Farming

[Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>]

On Jan 15, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Joan Vibert wrote:

Big Beef has been very good here. Unfortunately (I'd rather not open a  
can of worms here, so please just ignore the word "unfortunately" if  
you don't care) it's now Monsanto's.

I'm still growing Big Beef, but looking (so far unsucessfully) for a  
replacement. I tried growing it out, but have so far had several  
generations with, not too surprisingly, considerably more variation  
and somewhat less usable production in the resulting fruit than in Big  
Beef itself.

Park's Improved Whopper wasn't in their 2010 paper catalogue (I don't  
have the 2011 paper catalogue yet) and is on sale on their web site. I  
wonder if they're intending to drop it.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale