Dear Jeb,
As to the booth at the Farmer's market...what sort of certification for
home grown produce was she referring to? I grow vegetables by
subscription, and according to everyone I have talked to from the
city and county to the US dept. of Ag and there seem to be no
regulating authority. If you want to label your produce organic, then
you have to have state certification...but the state can't restrict you
from telling buyers that your food was grown without inorganic
fertilizers and pesticides, herbecides etc.
ed
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> I'm replying to this on the buying club list, since it's related...
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:27:05PM -0700, Gayle Bowers wrote:
> > Can you send it again? I lost it.
>
> A message Gayle recently sent to list was lost because of an email
> problem (which has since been fixed). She said she would like to sell
> some of her cut flowers at a farmers market booth for the buying club.
>
> I have since talked with Shirley Adshade-Sponsler, (president of the
> Nevada Certified Farmers' Market Association), 746-5024 and she said
> she would look in to the possibility of us having a booth for the
> buying club and would get back to me...
>
> Her main concern was that an organic group at the farmers market
> should not "put down" non-organic farmers. That is understandable,
> and I explained that we're mainly just a cooperative buying club. I
> also mentioned the idea of selling produce grown in community gardens
> at our booth, and she said it was a great idea, but might be difficult
> since we would need some level of certification for each garden.
>
> > Also I can't be at the farmers market on Sat. I have a community
> > event staged, and I must attend.
>
> No problem... There has been little posted on the site so far though,
> so perhaps we should send another announcement that the deadline for
> ordering this month will be Sunday. We might also simplify the
> OrderFormat based on the user page only. (Please don't hesitate to
> send a message to the list if you want something, but don't have a
> catalog to look it up, and need some help...)
>
> > Re: The chat room: It would actually be a message board. I had it with my
> > 2 Internet college courses with WNCC.
> > It's totally informal. I guess???
>
> Actually, the live (wiki) site can serve as a message board now;
> although I am working on setting up some group-ware software which may
> provide another kind of chat later, (as well as eventually a database
> system for entering and accounting for our orders, which should save a
> huge amount of time and tedious/repetitive work in the long run...)
>
> Thanks,
> -jeb
>
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