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  • From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] amish orcharding
  • Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:54:04 -0400


hello,

That is my experience in the Nennonite area of SW Ontario.

Tom

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:46:09 -0400, road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com> wrote:


On Jun 3, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Thomas Beckett wrote:

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Reading and thinking about the challenges of growing apples
organically,
it occured to me that the Amish are not likely to have adopted modern
chemical-farming practices in their orchards. But I can't find
anything
online about Amish orchard techniques. Is there any published
examination of Amish agriculture extant? Any wisdom to share?

Many or most Amish and Mennonites do use "modern chemical-farming". The
Amish just don't use tractors to power the sprayers. I do know a few
Mennonites interested in organic.


--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly



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