[Ag-eq] Blind people Farming?

Wed Feb 4 03:51:01 UTC 2009

Well, I believe for a farm to be supportive to any degree, it either needs 
to have a spicific nich such as wool, selling jams/jellies, making cheese 
and things like that.  On the other hand, it may be more productive to have 
a veriety of sellable produce/products that can be cycled through the entire 
year.  That way, if something fails, you do not lose your whole sorce of 
revenue for the year.

Personally, it is hard to find small scale farming of any kind that there is 
not a sorce of steady income, full or parttime, that isn't coming from off 
property or at home work.

Alpaca wool is a high priced wool production as long as you have the 
outsources for the wool, however, the animals are not cheep.  You would 
still have to either rotate older animals for younger animals either by 
breeding or purchase.  Depending on the condition of each animal determens 
the quality of the fleese.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sivill" <mike.sivill at viewplus.com>
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Blind people Farming?

> This is a good question,
> I keep hearing farming in the list of blind people with impressive
> professions but have yet to ever meet or talk to a blind farmer who does 
> it
> as a living. Is it even possible to support yourself in today's market as 
> a
> small farmer let alone a blind one? Maybe if the lady in NC teaches me how
> to spin Alpaca wool I will start an alpaca farm.
> Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Claudia J Combs-Wise
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:16 PM
> To: Agricultural and Equestrean Division List
> Subject: [Ag-eq] Blind people Farming?
>
> 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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