[Ag-eq] Blind Gardener Discussion List

[Laurie Porter]

Thanks for that information. I just joined the list. I just thought it would 
be nice to talk about a commonality that most of us have such as gardening.

I'm very involved in the Buy Fresh Buy Local movement up here in Wisconsin. 
It's main objective is to bring back the smaller farms that seem to diminish 
every year either by urbanization, large scale factory farming and the 
changes in our economy that shape the nature of food growth and distribution 
in this country. My husband comes from a family of dairy farmers and like so 
many people have had to sell there operations.

We've been looking around for some land to start an orchard which is a dream 
of mine. I would love to grow all my berries peaches, plums, grapes 
apricots, apples pairs,  for the 75 different varieties of Jams and jellies 
we make ourselves and sell at southern Wisconsin's farmers markets. The 
property  I am on now allows me to grow only a third of what I have to buy 
from local farmers. I'm also curious about the gentleman who left a message 
about starting fish farming. It is something we considered investing in.

With all the snow we've had up here so far, it looks good for our maple 
syrup production this year.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Chambers" <regenerative at earthlink.net>
To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:08 AM
Subject: [Ag-eq] Blind Gardener Discussion List


>
> Hi all,
>
> I used to be a frequent poster on this list.  I think I'm still a  member. 
> It is full of gardeners of all skill levels.  Richard, the  group owner 
> keeps a list of accessible gardening web sites.  That  list, and the list 
> of USDA climate zones gets emailed to everyone on  the First of each 
> month.
>
> See ya online,
> Fred
>
> Blind Gardeners, is a group for blind and visually impaired people  who 
> are interested in gardening. Discussion topics include, gardening  in 
> general, problems unique to blind and visually impaired gardeners,  the 
> availability, quality, and speech accessibility of gardening  CD's, 
> gardening books in other formats, and what to do with the  produce of the 
> garden. This group is family friendly, so no profanity  please.
>
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blind-gardener/
>
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