Commerical Farmers

[Smiling Nastasja]

Just a discussion idea.

How do you feel about large scale farmers? Such as the people who supply the hamburger in the grocery store, ect? Egg produce’s, milk, ect.
Do you buy things from the like this from the grocery store, grow your own, buy locally?

What are your thoughts on animal treatment?

[Grace Southern]

My family prefers home grown food. But since we are living in town, and our tiny garden didn't produce much this year, and we can't own any animals, we have had to buy most vegtables, and all dairy and meat products from the grocery store.

[Grace Southern]

I would like to add that the reason we shop at stores rather then from farmers, is that it is more economical, practical, and safe as you never know what the farmer did to the food before selling, while grocery store would not put anything in the foods that they would get in big trouble for!

[Smiling Nastasja]

Thanks so much for the reply Grace! Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. We also prefer home grown foods, we keep an all organic garden.

We prefer to buy from fellow farmers in our town, and surrounding towns because we can talk straight to the person who grew the food, or raised the animals, made the cheese/butter ect. If you buy from a store, most foods are chemically treated, and you don't know who grew it, and you can't always help them make their product better. Getting to know fellow farmers, helps you be able to trade, help one and another grow stronger in your products, and get some great(usually organic food) at a good price.

One reason commercial farmers don't get in "trouble" for what they put into their food, is because they use a lot of things that are certified. That doesn't mean they are healthy for you though. It just means that in a small dose they will not harm you, or the plant. But in the long term, I am sure it could/does do some kind of damage, verse's using all organic foods.

[Grace Southern]

Yeah, I am sure you are right. We Do prefer to grow things on our own, but in town that is not much of an option. You really can tell the difference between homegrown or store bought, they taste and look alot better! Sometimes it reminds me of Alice and Wonderland, except instead of painting roses red, they are painting tomatos! Off with their heads!

Once we move out in the country again, we have always dreamed if setting up our own road side stand to sell our farm products, baked goods, and stuff like that.

[Gorden]

I'm not too crazy about the chemicals either, but it's not very economical for the farmer to eliminate their use. Just the huge increase in labor is enough to scare most guys away from organically row crop farming. Unfortunately you cant hardly afford to pay your hired hands to sit there and pull weeds all summer.

I do know some guys that run about 600 or so acres and they get all the church kids to come out and pull weeds, so I guess if you can find cheep labor you can do it, but that's hard to come by sometimes. As long as people keep buying it like that, we'll keep selling it to them!

[Kamon]

To be honest once the lands ERG's, collodial minerals, and humus level are back in quanity and are balance with each other with a high amount of beneficial bacteria and Fungi plants grow well and the hard weeds don't at all.

Most farmers are using 4 times more chemical fertilizer than they had to in the 60's due to it killing all of the microbial life as well as breaking up a healthy soil layer structure which inturn cause leaching.

Organics are just slighty better than Chemical users in fact. Their soil are still mineral depleted and though they are started in a correct path Compost AKA humus/Organic matter is just one of the many peices that have to come into play to produce the premuim high mineral dense crop.

My own personal experiance proves that when a High organic matter soil comes into play with, healthy bacteria/fungi levels and rock minerals such as Calcium Carbonate and Collodial phoshates (not to mention trace minerals that a high energy soil is created.

High energy dies without minerals. Minerals cannot be broken down and electrically charge also enter the plant with out being broken down due to energy. Without Organic matter these both have no structure to provide holding capacity, in which they become electrically charged and held til needed.

The plants I have applied this method to are the size of of most people 3 year old plants in 1 year. (blackberries)

The plants are a black green they are so healthy with iron and they laugh at any type of pest or disease.

On weeds God designed weeds to grow to extremely exact conditions. If your soil needs this than a weed that will give that to the soil grows there. There people who can tell you what type of soil you have to work with by the weeds growing.

You soil could have 100 different weed seeds and it only grow 5-10 of them.

Actually once a healthy soil organism is reached the plant with a very small amount of care grows itself.

Also mulch is something that God uses as weeds control. We put down about 4 tons of mulch this year. (Hay Mulch/hardwood chips)

Great stuff. Best thing in the world for helping a soil get back on it's feet. Are garlic page how the importance of it and hopefully we will upload a vid sometime this winter of it.

Once a soil has been fed boy it can really be a work horse.

P.S. sorry about the grammar mistakes but I am tired. (put down 1750 lbs of mulch today)

[bmoeller]

[Gorden]

Your very right, 98% of farms in America are Family Farms. Though many may be quite large, no matter where you buy your food, theirs a very good chance that it came off a family farm. Plus many of the large operations are still family run. The good thing about buying directly from the farmer though is that it eliminates several middle men, and it benefits both you and the farmer.