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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

 

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" 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

> >

> >

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