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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] IPM
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:48:08 -0500
I'm surprised and pleased to hear that there are
places where IPM is going strong. Maybe the proper incentive would be to
give some simple definition to it for the consumer. Say, no more
than 2 non-organic sprays per crop. That would give wannabe organic
farmers a fallback position if they can't do it, and would simply mean that if
they have to spray more times than that with something not organically
certified, they couldn't market it as IPM. Down here in Tenn, I'm still
trying to get through to the little guys with a few cattle on grass that they
should market them locally. We apparently have a strong beekeepers group,
and we have some good market gardeners at the local farmer's mkt, but I can't
see much else happening here. Meanwhile we are going backward in terms of
losing locally adapted fruits and veggies. On a happier front, I picked a
few pears today that I'm going to try to ID, probably the KY var "Early
Harvest". An apt name, but are they really fit to eat? I'll know in
the next 2 weeks. Donna
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Re: [NAFEX] IPM,
Terry Bradshaw, 06/12/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] IPM, mIEKAL aND, 06/12/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [NAFEX] IPM,
Richard Harrison, 06/12/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] IPM,
Kieran &/or Donna, 06/12/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] IPM, Ginda Fisher, 06/16/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] IPM,
Kieran &/or Donna, 06/12/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] IPM,
Richard Harrison, 06/13/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] early pears, Kieran &/or Donna, 06/17/2009
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