[AT] garden question; potatoes

[Al Jones]

I'm not sure but I believe hybrids are permitted, so long as the seed was produced organically.  Obviously you can't use any GMO's.

The trick to organically grown meat, milk, and eggs is that they must eat organically grown feed.  Unless you grow your own feed that gets pretty tricky. 

Al 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Fink Sr <rfinksr at verizon.net>
>Sent: Jun 21, 2013 3:45 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] garden question; potatoes
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>I have what may be a real dumb question. In organic farming how is it 
>organic if using a hybrid seed. Or one that has been made to be better[ 
>witch means to me screwed with]  Charlie ain,t that what is to fix any 
>problem throw money at it????????
>R Fink
>PA
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 5:51 AM
>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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