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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] odd request for the list
  • Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:28:43 -0500


On Mar 4, 2011, at 3:20 PM, KAKerby AT aol.com wrote:

I shudder to think this article really represents what the public thinks of our efforts (and our intelligence). 


His description of both organic and conventional farming is simplistic; and he writes as if organic is mostly a matter of finding specific alternatives to specific chemicals that can be plugged into basically the same system; but I've seen a lot worse.

I've actually run into more than one person who thinks organic means not using any fertilizers; and there seem to be quite a few who think that we don't use any information or techniques that weren't around a hundred years ago. The article read to me as if the author was trying to counteract those misperceptions, not as if he agreed with them.

Admittedly, the line implying that we don't use technology that involves steel is pretty confusing. There's an organic equipment use book out called Steel in the Field.




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






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