Academics vs. growers?
Betsy Levy (blevy@mail.utexas.edu)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:41:32 -0600
I'd like to throw out a dispassionate comment about exchanges on this list.
I occasionally see postings from growers looking for input on their work,
and also similar "fishing" postings from less knowledgeable people (myself
included) which are responded to in a spirit that seems to imply that
growers are separate from academics and never the twain shall meet. A
recent exchange about a disease on sweet potato met with an academic's
response referring the poster to his local extension service, but I saw no
grower responses. I posted something about controlling pill bugs
organically and got no response except from someone who thought the
question was somehow very naive and not something I should have asked a
national network of organic growers, because of the diversity of their
growing conditions! I don't get it - why this assumption that informal
networking over the back fence isn't a legitimate means of information
exchange among the sustainable ag _community_? Haven't people talked up the
internet as having just that potential on a national scale? How many
growers actually subscribe and participate on this list? This stuff really
interests me! any comments?
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