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Skriven 2014-09-16 20:57:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: farmers   was: OJ
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 09-12-14  20:27 <=-

 NB>> Some of that is probably inevitable, unless a whole area goes
 NB>> essentially organic...  I know that Wegmans has both organic and
 NB>> traditional farms supplying their produce... They're still pretty
 NB>> careful of how the traditional farms manage their crops, but they do
 NB>> have both in the store.  I suppose that an organic farmer needing to
 NB>> have a buffer could still sell that part as conventional to the same
 NB>> store, with that sort of setup...  :)  It still doesn't seem fair to
 NB>> the little guy, though...  :)

 RH> The little guy is getting hurt, but if he can sell some of his crops
 RH> as conventional, some organic, it's better than losing out completley.
 RH> Hopefully he can work things out to a good resolution with the bigger
 RH> guys using the pesticides, etc.

One can hope, anyway... :)

 NB>> Our son learned from a very early age that milk came from cows, as we
 NB>> were getting milk from our dairy farmer friend in Lisbon when we were
 NB>> up to camp, back when we'd be up for at least 2 weeks at a time, with

 RH> Got to teach kids early on. I'm not sure how much our grandkids know
 RH> about farming. We'll have to take them on field trips I guess. When we

Hopefully their parents are passing along some of the teaching... :)

 RH> were living in Swansboro, we got to know a farmer and bought our milk
 RH> from him for several years. He was the one we got the hog from, not
 RH> long before Deborah was born. (I had to run after Rachel for a couple
 RH> of hours while it was being cut up, then go home and wrap everything
 RH> for the freezer. No fun at 7 months pregnant.)

That must have been quite the scene...  :)   I'm sure you were exhausted
by the time everything was finally put away...!   :)

 RH> We also sourced other
 RH> local farmers for various things (tomatoes, peaches, beans, sweet
 RH> potatoes), especially the last year before Steve went into the Army.

We did a little pick your own when Rob was little... a couple of moms
and their kids would make somewhat of a field trip of it...  :)

 NB>> grandparents in growing season without Grampa sending us home with
 NB>> plenty of produce from his large garden..  :)  I only grew tomatoes
 NB>> here, for a while... and an abortive stab at rhubarb (lasted maybe two
 NB>> seasons)...  but he saw those grow, too..  :)   Of course, we live in
 NB>> the middle of farm country here, as well, so one could hardly drive
 NB>> anywhere without going by farms and orchards...  :)

 RH> True, we've probably passed a lot of the same ones in our comings and
 RH> goings in that part of NY. (G)

No doubt...  :)

ttyl           neb

... Pity the poor corpuscle, for he labors in vein.

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