Guest guest Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Hi Lois, Here is an article from a Seattle food co-op on the organic fruit it buys from Yakima with contact info for 2 farmers. Its dated 2001, but since one guy has been there for 25 years he is likely still there. www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/sc/0108/sc0108-farmers.html This link takes you to the Washington Tilth Producers Directory page. If you search by region for " south central " you will get a list that include several fruit growers in the Yakima area. www.tilthproducers.org/directory/tpdirportal.htm Since they likely know of other organic growers, if you ask one grower for sources of fruit that he doesn't grow, he could have suggestions for more contacts. May your day be filled with clarity, grace, progress, and warm laughter, Roger - " Lois Cole " <loisc100 <RawSeattle > Saturday, March 05, 2005 7:53 AM Re: [RawSeattle] fluoride > > Who grows organic fruit in the Yakima area? Used to be an organic apple orchard in Moxee, but it was up for sale over a year ago. > I can only hope we have more rain this summer, since we are having a winter drought. > Thanks for your input, you always seem to have lots of good info. > Lois > > Roger Padvorac <roger wrote: > Hi Lois, > There are ways to reduce or eliminate the use of irrigation water. There is a free online book about this located at > www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0302hsted/030201/03020100frame.html > " Gardening without Irrigation " by Steve Solomon 1993, 64pp printed in an 8.5x11 format > > Steve Solomon was living in a drier part of Oregon when he wrote the book. He has pictures of a guy growing carrots in southern Oregon without irrigation in a place that gets only a little more water than Yakima does. > > Some of the key techniques are: > Increase plant spacing > Increase absorption of water into the soil when it does rain > Decrease evaporation from the soil with cultivation and/or mulch > Use windbreaks to decrease evaporation from leaves and soil > If its really hot, use midday partial sun shading > > These practices are particularly useful in places like the west coast of North America where more of the rain falls in the winter than in the summer. This is because all those feet of soil below the plant act like a big water sponge. So the basic idea is if the sponge soaks up more water than the plant and soil evaporation use, then the plant does fine without irrigation. > > " Permaculture: a Designers' Manual " by Bill Mollison also has information on dry climate vegetable gardening with reduced or no irrigation. Besides covering some of the same suggestions mentioned above, he also explains how to shape the ground so rain water soaks in where its needed the most. > > For example, if during heavy rains 2 " of rain ends up as runoff each year, and you concentrate this runoff from one acre onto a garden 100'x100' where it ponds until it soaks in, then this is like an additional 8 " of rain a year on that garden. Diverting all the water runoff from the gutters on a house onto a smaller garden would have a similar effect. > > Bill Mollison goes into detail on how people have grown vegetables in areas with 3 " of annual rainfall. > > The fresher the vegetables are, the bigger benefit there is in eating them raw. Since organic fruit is grown in the Yakima area, and fresh greens are lots more fragile than fresh fruit or root crops, a good compromise might be growing your own greens from water you can harvest from your own rainfall, and buying the fruit and roots crops. > > May your day be filled with clarity, grace, progress, and warm laughter, > Roger > > - > " Lois Cole " <loisc100 > <RawSeattle > > Friday, March 04, 2005 10:31 AM > [RawSeattle] fluoride > > > > > > Lois, from Yakima. > > Say, I have this book, " World Without Cancer " by G. Edward Griffin. I bought in 2003 at Borders book store. I am concerned about fluoridated water and my vegetable garden. I have to water my garden with Yakima's now fluoridated water. On page 309 is reads, > > " once it is absorbed into edible plants, it is converted into organic compounds such as fluoracetate or fluorcitrate which are at least five-hundred times more poisonous than the inorganic salt. This means that vegetables and fruits which have been irrigated by fluoridated water supplies could become potential killers. " > > Foot note is , " K.A. Baird, M.D., op. cit., p. 4. " > > > > Want some input on this, because if this is true, then I best not plant any veggies. > > Thanks, Lois > > > > > > > > Celebrate 's 10th Birthday! > > Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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