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  • From: road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com>
  • To: mrtejas@lycos.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Corporate farms/off-topic
  • Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:00:35 -0500


On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 06:42 PM, philip sauber wrote:

From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
Date: Thu Dec 18, 2003 06:42:58 PM US/Eastern
To: "Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:
Subject: [NAFEX] Corporate farms
Reply-To: mrtejas@lycos.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>

The myth of the small farm died in the 1930s after tractors became widely used.

This thread is getting way off topic. But I do want to say that the small farm ain't dead yet. Some small farms are doing pretty well, and there are more in this area than there were ten or twenty years ago. (This includes full-time farms, as well as some supported by outside jobs.) It's not, of course, farming the way you describe; people are switching to specialty crops, direct marketing, and cooperative marketing. Many of these farms do grow a lot of their own food.

-- Rivka





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