[AT] garden question; potatoes

[charlie hill]

Yes I know you are right about the three counties John but couldn't help
blaming it all on you.  grins.   At least you are up on top of the heap.

You are right, there are legitimate uses for organic and those folks do hard
but in my opinion the whole thing is bogus.    The only part of the organic
movement that makes any sense to me is not using harmful chemical
pesticides.  As far as being organic, I go back to what I said before.
Fertilizer out of a bag is just as organic as fertilizer out of the horse 
pasture.
Of course there is inorganic material in fertilizer too but generally it's 
organic.


We have fish farms down here.  Some are within a mile or two of creeks and 
rivers
where large fishing trawlers are docked.   I guess there is a market for 
both
natural and farm grown.   I prefer mine out of the creek, river or ocean.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 6:51 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes

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


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