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Written by YAMADA, Masaru
The mass production of beef and grain, the image of a strong
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Was led by 13 teachers from primary schools in the survey握RISHIME children, the stand 50 to explore the stores of the farmers. People asked in amazement I stopped in front of a sell seedlings Stokes Farm Flower Farm.
"Flowers can make in
He replied in a tone familiar to the farm of Tom Margotta. "Yeah. I can make a lot of flowers. Now I want to actually come and see."
Jessica's elementary school teachers who led them. "Garbage to bring home the kids, throw in the recycling box at the side of the stand.'s Good to know that the roots through the garbage at a local farm and food."
The project began to move the learning experience of agriculture. Studied at the farm stand and the children go to school and farmers. The city and surrounding farm, said the aim of the child to know that food and protecting the green environment. Organizations and enterprises to support agricultural $ 6000 (about 60 million yen) to contribute to the cooperation with
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Environmental Council of New York to operate a stand (CENYC) David Hughes of the field, expect to receive increasing attention to the people behind the food the children of the city. Get on track to this project, the number of children participating in the learning experience this year over 2000 people expected.
The stand at the
New Yorkers interested in locally produced agricultural products to
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I was talking to Mr. Hughes, his voice has been multiplied by the David Graves had arranged a jam or honey on the side of the Corner program.
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■ local production for local consumption and honey
Graves has handed me the honey label, the "roof of the honey collected in
Few minutes walk, climb to the roof of the hotel stay was Graves usual, and go around the wall near the nest box and showed me grin, open the lid with a laugh.
Looking around the landscape from the roof, the green than I thought for sure. However, regular honey (more so), a honey bee hive採RERU one from about 60 kg, but fell to half of the building's roof. But Mr. Graves is mindless. To sell at a price several times the mass product, to make sense of management.
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Mr. Graves has started beekeeping in 1977,
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"Conversely honey from pollen allergies, including pollen is so effective." Mr. Graves said.
So, a little投GE掛KETA suavely.
"The honey in the middle of Manhattan作RANAKU separate origins of another, also from China, for example pollen it contains."
Mr. Graves, said good crisp.
"The people in question in the pollen, it's important that includes many of the land pollen. Honey to pollen allergy in China China may be good, but in
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As a place to give consumers a variety of agricultural and food education for children, strengthen the stand of the
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Posted on: 2009/05/13
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"Stokes Farm" owner, who greeted her BINAGI Ron. This farm, in
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He was 16 years old BINAGI, remember the words of the father when the stand first opened in
The first was brought to 10 items such as tomatoes and strawberries. The business has expanded steadily in addition to herbs and flower seedlings. Land prices are high, management area is about seven hectares in the same as before. However, increasing the rotation to build a house, the sales increased. Shipments to dealers and market without any direct sale of and sell at the
"Now more than 60 items. Herbs are most often in terms of sales. And build a traditional local varieties in the same tomato, napa and make kimchi for the needs of people in the eggplant and
30 Contents of Stokes Farm stand management and between years has changed dramatically. Originally bought in 1910 are made by farmers and consumers. From the late 80's, the sudden change in the consumer-driven selection.
"Decided to buy the consumer goods, we produce it. The same flower crops. People want the pink flower pink if the trends. Flows are just unstoppable."
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Mr. BINAGI, while the business itself has been growing in response to changing market supple, even with growing alarm. The forest is full of supermarket goods, imports of vegetables and West Coast production of cheap, because to maintain the field in
"KURANDARA not see a price that consumers would have lost around urban agriculture. 2001 nine months of terrorism, not the
■ a vacant lot next to the farmland and
Environmental Council of
If organic produce in the state of California and Chile come from far, consumers have been thinking about it the right choice to buy it, and local agricultural pesticides and chemical fertilizers used in routine, worry It appeared that much more.
Stick to the local agriculture, but from the freshness of the product is not good. "I think there is a visceral sense of refusing to be gone from farmland and urban agriculture," said Hurwitz director. Green's personal belongings are lost if not for farming, food and interest in children, it dilutes the number of connections that bind people and the agriculture -.
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CENYC is a case of strict adherence to local agriculture, Brooklyn New York City non-governmental organization (NGO) who has introduced the Value ADDEDO activities.
15 minutes by taxi and go,
Unfortunately, "farmer" HAORAZU, just watch from the outside, "If you have little vacant land, agricultural land would have appealed to the residents.尽KUSE the word is filled with wall-to-eat, to Brooklyn's". About me CENYC description of David Hughes, was sufficiently convincing.
This product is harvested in the farms, take the responsibility of the local people. The weekend is expected to help with the sale of his farm work and high school students stand.
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The next car to move to the southwest 5-hour visit to
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Some spread of rolling pastures, stand in neat little garden of the farmhouse. Houses lined the small seedlings are happy to weigh up the tourists went by car. Farmers behave the pie and homemade ice cream with a smile.
"For us, direct selling is an important management tool. By no means to reach customers, it's important to get a customer"
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Mr. FUYADO is within the county of 2,000 people near an Amish farmer. Life is moving in a carriage, plow a field with horses. However, in a carriage in the distance delivery of the harvested produce is not easy.
Lancaster Farm Fresh is a cooperative that appeared there. Amish farmers gathering their car does not have a computer and set up three years ago. This year, 22 pickup trucks and the association of organic farmers, about 800 are delivered to consumers. Recently, sales in supermarkets and other high-end organic produce仕入RETAI.
I visited the distribution center in
If the association, consumers are paying about 7 million yen per year during the summer, we get an assortment of vegetables every week. The car is one of
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"Many of the farmers sell directly to the individual had been, until the establishment of the union had to make a variety of crops. Now it's between the union, once the farmer can concentrate on specialty crops. Complication were freed from administrative tasks. "
Agricultural extension worker Jeff Graybill,
■ Minshuku farmers saved dilemma
In some special circumstances that many Amish farmers and the agricultural characteristics carefully, and should have the ingenuity and efforts of the farmers market. Covering the
"Come in the county of 150 tourists staying in the farm house. to their agricultural products, as well as cash."
Mr. Rank is 45 acres (18.2 hectares) with about 100 head of dairy cattle breed. Since last winter, revenues have decreased the price of raw milk dairy in the nation to plunge. I could barely keep the income from a business house.
"Maybe the pressure in the dairy business if there is no house."
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House is starting the year 1967, has been gradually building a facility. In the morning who want to ride in a carriage, to milk the cows and experience. Breakfast is served in a traditional treat of milk and local pride.
"Mommy, this milk tastes good"
A young married couple who attended and worked at the government research organization in
Our use of land near
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Some spread of rolling pastures, stand in neat little garden of the farmhouse. Houses lined the small seedlings are happy to weigh up the tourists went by car. Farmers behave the pie and homemade ice cream with a smile.
“For us, direct selling is an important management tool. By no means to reach customers, it's important to get a customer”
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Mr. FUYADO is within the county of 2,000 people near an Amish farmer. Life is moving in a carriage, plow a field with horses. However, in a carriage in the distance delivery of the harvested produce is not easy.
Lancaster Farm Fresh is a cooperative that appeared there. Amish farmers gathering their car does not have a computer and set up three years ago. This year, 22 pickup trucks and the association of organic farmers, about 800 are delivered to consumers. Recently, sales in supermarkets and other high-end organic produce.
I visited the distribution center in
If the association, consumers are paying about 7 million yen per year during the summer, we get an assortment of vegetables every week. The car is one of
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“Many of the farmers sell directly to the individual had been, until the establishment of the union had to make a variety of crops. Now it's between the union, once the farmer can concentrate on specialty crops. Complication were freed from administrative tasks. “
Agricultural extension worker Jeff Graybill,
■ Minshuku farmers saved dilemma
In some special circumstances that many Amish farmers and the agricultural characteristics carefully, and should have the ingenuity and efforts of the farmers market. Covering the
“Come in the county of 150 tourists staying in the farm house. to their agricultural products, as well as cash.”
Mr. Rank is 45 acres (18.2 hectares) with about 100 head of dairy cattle breed. Since last winter, revenues have decreased the price of raw milk dairy in the nation to plunge. I could barely keep the income from a business house.
“Maybe the pressure in the dairy business if there is no house.”
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House is starting the year 1967, has been gradually building a facility. In the morning who want to ride in a carriage, to milk the cows and experience. Breakfast is served in a traditional treat of milk and local pride.
“Mommy, this milk tastes good”
A young married couple who attended and worked at the government research organization in
Our use of land near
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"During the last summer some had predicted, and did I get so tight."
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My mother bought the farm in 1965 from his brother in 40 years of head start. Then, expanding in-house training. The entire 500 hectares of pasture management, including 12 people working. In principle, milking three times daily. Small amounts of cow's milk is reduced to two times.
Compared to small farmers, but cost far less competitive, but still 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of production cost is $ 15 each (1,400 yen) cost. On the other hand, raw milk prices will be closer to 20 dollars last summer and plummet to levels that fall below 12 dollars.
"Of the planned renovation of the kitchen is delayed. To not only keep the expenses as possible," said his wife, Dorothy. However, management has not only improved husbandry.
A few weeks ago, the stalemate of the dairy management and investment company owned by,
Was dissolved and the assets sold.
"Our goal is to pass the farm to the next generation, we are not going to throw out." Mr. Carl, unlike companies that simply withdraw the profits to go, I'm going to stay local. However, the U.S. Overall, the technology division of birth Male Female cows, raw milk supply and demand will continue to ease in the future, says Carl tough to predict.
And his wife's attention to local consumers. Began to incorporate part of the elementary school classes to visit the ranch recently. 10:25 to 1:25, learn the dairy during lunch in between.
"I believe that children can milk factory. Get interested in the field of children's show. The goal is to get to drink more milk."
The field of dietary education, she was primarily responsible. Important for the future "customers" to, which aims to attract more fans and the general improvement in the consumption of local farm.
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"Yes, $ 1 20 cents, $ 1 20 cents I do not."
Morning 9 o'clock, the sound went from production to market Lancaster County REORA the thick of the specific auction sale. Auction sale and move the field, to determine the value of each item. I counted roughly, is buying 30 or more participants. Most were local shops.
■ market support family -
The market will be closed during the winter, to be held from Monday to Friday every week. Seedlings before the auction sale of flowers, fruits and vegetables come in five to five times a week from Monday. Peak summer squash and sweet corn shipped six times a week. Amish farmers and the carriage track to ship, will make a success of a column of several hundred meters before the entrance.
"Unsuccessfully to grow tobacco was 20 years ago, established a market selling fruit and vegetables for local farmers to the store. 2000 that the shipments were about two percent of them was a professional farmer. Rest a small farm. "
Graybill says
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The field right next to the market (policeman's rope) I talked to Mr. Nord was the work of
20 minutes drive by car in
The seller was the highest in 50 cases per ton of alfalfa $ 200 (about USD 95). The average price was about 100 dollars.
"This is the end of the 2008 annual transactions. From lower corn prices, as compared to the same period last year, two percent lower. It hit a new series next week, I will wait."
Description of the market who have one of the Amish farmers who came to buy. He is a small farmer, who came to purchase a lack of pasture. Times a week the market is going is the rhythm of life.
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We left the
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"Hit the unseasonably low temperatures, may have a freeze apples and peaches."
Passenger in the car and Paul Lehman's fear of the spread, the singer went to the farm. The county last year, just received a blow in the fruits of nearly half hail damage.
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However, management has met with Jim BITTONA field, had to say to Mr. Lehman. "It's OK about this. But lower temperatures tomorrow will worry about it."
BITTONA's a confident, in fact, not from farmers. Studied agriculture at
200 grown in the orchards of apples and apricots ha.
However,
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The office is focused on promotion, direct sales of locally produced agricultural products. Urban consumers, not to come to Niagara Falls Tourism's target consumers rather than local. California has the largest fruit farm in the east coast, at the foot of the shaft in place of mass marketing to consumers, a market full of cheap fruit and apple juice produced in the southern hemisphere of the low-price Chinese products, new marketing he asked.
The map has been published in the direct sales made by local farmers where 78 houses are spread. Among the most ardent "local system" and got up to say a
■ The principle of local survival
The tower's management of 40 hectares, the area will be small. First thing one says, "was the wrong value of agriculture to" cut.
"Farmers are always small and not survive, it has been white scale. Small farmers are treated as nuisance. The only competitive but have a loser. Not the local economy, the less farmers will maintain the community Can not "
Traditional varieties of apples and tomatoes in a wooden stand in a converted old barn, selling peaches and berries. To buy some from a nearby farm for the lineup, most of which were grown on their own.
The contractor is. However, you come to buy fresh ingredients for the chefs of local restaurants.
"I am who yearn to grow agricultural products for local people. Who will be the health of local consumers get a fresh. And the money circulating in the area, it should be a winner for everyone."
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The most important thing was to stand in for the local consumers "trust" and Mr. Tower said. To explain the many cases of food disguised in
"To get to the store that you'd come again. To say that the harvest is sold out at least, things like put the things I bought from other producers do not"
Ripe berries, and vegetables six starts in the mid-tower's stand. Has not moved forward. Line is met with fresh ripe. Does not even look to attract customers to the event. The tower is considered to flow only just to sell steadily.
Mr. Tower was born in the farmhouse, after the manager of a winery and a truck driver, was also a newcomer to the farmers to buy farmland. To work in a store and stand in favor of agricultural work and hire the local high school students. Have an interest in local agriculture and food of young people's first concern now is that they grow to the next generation.
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Overlap with the image of Japanese agriculture, "Agriculture in the
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Cities have grown by abandoning the farmland. But when the city started to deteriorate, farmland in the cities are growing.
General Motors in the automotive industry that have supported the
To hang out a lot of people in front of the building. Christian Peacemaker's Church. Alcohol, and the bouncing from drug addiction and prostitution, and people flock here for a free meal service to the church daily. There are also more than 50 people on weekends.
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The former nurse, where I met Shirley Robinson to assist in volunteer activities. Herself, had been addicted to drugs two years ago.
"Notably the automotive industry is sick, who come to the lunch car and dressed in dapper. The local church is a good or bad I can not. I have a normal life so far or who have fallen rapidly downstream. "
The church is a vacant lot near the "farms" were extended. The family vegetable garden and chicken coop of a few square meters of building space at the ruins, as if it has grown like a living cell. Vegetables and herbs grown in the farms, the eggs used in catering, sales and stand in the city, spending part of the cost of running a church. "Farmers abrupt" No formal agreement of the majority of agricultural land use, open space to the field itself.
Robinson says he has information. "We all fled to
The land of the people depend on meals in the church. If the technology of agriculture, continue to increase "infill urban agriculture," also hopes that we can eat.
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According to
Gently spread poverty in urban areas. The attempt to get out of there, maybe one in her family's farm in the
■ Charm infiltration of local products
"In
Abba Ann, on the outskirts of
Last year, to reach local consumers with local agricultural products can "RAKOBORIASU" founded the company. The frozen material was harvested during the summer season, from autumn to winter supply.
In June, a one in two consumers seeking membership year. Monthly in the fall, bring several frozen. The farmer has to pay the price before the harvest. The supermarket shelves are 450 grams per 100 frozen corn available in the yen, the company is selling at 400 yen. Many applicants, but sellout crowd.
"Frozen in different flavors, which supported the company I think people need local agriculture."
BASSHU has now started a relationship around the farm last year, is negotiating to get a shipping company. Scale is still small, a little number-supported agriculture (CSA) began to grasp the challenge of expanding the circle.
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"Price is not alone, many consumers will find significant value." Explained to me is Mike Score's
I visited a farm near Mike BOSSORI ARUBA's been brought to his score. the flowers of the apple. Most farms are bought by BOSSORI 10 years ago.
"At the time, was working in the auto parts company. Market is shrinking, agriculture turned dark and the future. It was the right choice"
18 to 104 hectares are planted apple seeds. The turn away from large-scale apple production by a single species, in order to sell their home stand next to all the apples. The weekend of the 1000 season, the crowd of more than one car.
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The beautifully manicured gardens, rent a wedding hall and a carriage. Using a 100 year old facility, which also make apple cider.
In the full price, to keep consumers feeling tickling the rich "will consist of management," and BOSSORI believe.
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