Re: Chicken Choices and farmer's markets

March 22, 2008

Most states keep a list of all their farmer's markets. KY's goes on

and probably a dozen pages so finding that list, if your state has

one (and they probably have many, given the lack of communication

among various state agencies) that is what you want to get your hands

on as a good starting point. My wife was actually given ours when

she went for a WIC visit, so the WIC people " may " be of help in this

area.

Also, do you have a recent WAPF journal? The back of the journal has

listing for lots of farms and stuff state by state.

There are also some decent interent search tools like localharvest

and a few others, but IME nothing is as thorough (though not always

up to date) as the state one. Mercola has a few links on his website

that list off various tools.

Do you live in a more urban or rural or in between area? If you are

close to the more rural areas, then pray, providence, and perservance

may be the best tools you have... we have been amazed at how many

little farmers who you would never find on lists or at markets are

out there... but, they can be darn hard to find, though once you find

one you usually can hit a whole bunch! Also, with summer coming,

small farms may start to put out signs, etc.. in the area, so perhaps

get a scooter or some other low cost, gas efficient form of

transportation depending on where you are and take a cruise around?

Again, it is tough to go solo, so we hope we can encourage you to

hang in there. We are fortunate to have almost 100 families now

involved in our group, which makes helps everyone in so many ways.

But we started out alone about two years ago, and along the way have

found so many likeminded people (and educated lots others who are now

moving in the right directions;)

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