[Ag-eq] Blind people Farming?

[Claudia J Combs-Wise]

Hi again,

This is a follow-up question to my previous question about distinguishing 
weeds from plants...  How do you manage farming as a blind person?  I have 
wanted my own property for a long time so I can have my horse at home and to 
garden.  How do you manage planting, weeding, and harvesting?  Do you need a 
lot of sighted assistance?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurie Porter" <freespirit1 at tds.net>
To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Blind Gardener Discussion List


> 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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