[AT] garden question; potatoes

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

The lunatics are the county southeast of here, the liberal nut jobs are 
southwest and we are the blithering idiots at the top of the "Triangle" with 
the huge corporate tax revenues who have proven you can throw money at 
problems and not fix anything!

Back to the organic, I don't know what she wanted with it but assuming it 
really mattered, I didn't want any part of the liability. She may have been 
using it for mulch on certified organic vegetables. There is a rather large 
market here for fresh local grown produce (not necessarily organic).  Got to 
respect the folks doing it because they are generally doing it on a very 
small, labor intensive scale---the new breed of small full-time farmers. 
They do produce a much better product, equivalent to a personal garden in my 
opinion. And, their cash is green when they buy a load of straw for mulch!

I do get inquiries for straw for strange uses though. One guy bought some 
and was using it to locally grow some sort of farm-raised seafood (remember 
I am 3 hours from the ocean).  This was actually a small scale commercial 
business.

Another fellow came and measured the bale size and checked the weight. He 
wanted to use it for insulating an exterior wall in a garage he was 
converting to an office. Thank goodness the baler had been acting up and the 
length was varying a couple inches. I can see it now, he hauls away 50 bales 
and brings back 15 to swap for something a little shorter so he can squeeze 
it in the wall--I'm not running a lumber yard!

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:54 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes

You do realize that you live in the lunatic capital county of NC and
possibly the S/E don't you?
I would have told her it was organic.  Get your chemistry text out.  There
are two kinds of
things in the world, organic and inorganic.  Inorganic is minerals.  The
rest is organic.


Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:39 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes

Speaking of genetically modified, got to love dealing with the general
public. I run an online ad to sell wheat straw most of the year. I had a
lady inquire this spring if I had organic wheat straw. I told her no but if
she were to search around on the net there was a farm in NC that raised
organic wheat a couple years ago. Then she emailed back wanting to know if I
"at least" had straw that was not genetically modified. I replied that GMO
wheat does not exist outside of research labs and test fields. Hybrid crops
are not the same as GMO. I went on tell her about all the wonderful chemical
fertilizer, insecticide, and herbicide I treated my wheat with. That was
enough to get her to go annoy someone else.

John Hall