RE: Avery and food dist. system
Wiediger, Alison (awiediger@Hart.k12.ky.us)
Wed, 19 May 1999 08:45:44 -0500
We have to agree with this statement wholeheartedly. However, here in rural
Kentucky, 100+ miles from a major urban center, it is a 'tough row to hoe'.
We figure less than 5% of our customers have any idea what organic is, don't
see any need for it, buy whatever food is cheapest regardless of where it's
grown or how it's grown. We do a Farmers' Market in the closest large town
(50,000) every Saturday. Last Saturday, we had beautiful heads of 6
varieties of lettuce, early broccoli, spinach, radishes, various greens.
The other vendors had tomatoes,peppers, squash, even watermelon. By using a
poly tunnel, we will probably have ripe tomatoes, peppers and squash in
about 2 weeks - about 3-4 weeks ahead of field grown - but we won't have the
terrific sales we should have for the 'first', because consumers will
already be used to going to the stalls that always have everything. An
education process has to happen first, but that's tough to do here. We
persevere (this is our 9th season at this market and we do have some steady
customers), but it is discouraging to watch people pass up our beautiful,
organic, picked yesterday produce for stuff shipped in from who knows where,
picked who knows how many days ago.
Paul and Alison Wiediger
Au Naturel Farm
Smiths Grove, KY
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> From: BILL DUESING[SMTP:71042.2023@compuserve.com]
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> Efficient, productive organic farms growing for the existing food
> distribution system will be only slightly less disasterous for the planet
> and society than chemical farms.
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