Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Day 2

It's Day 2 of Farm to Plate.  I got to meet Mike known as Clay All Over from far eastern Ontario yesterday.  There are farmers here from many states and foreign countries.

The Casino here on the Iowa River is a good location.  As I was getting near, I drove into Washington County where I first learned to improve my notill practices 13 years ago!  I called my friends here but they are as busy as I am.  I hope we can meet before I head for home.

I got an email asking for help and it turns out the farmer is on the way home in central Illinois.  I have an appointment to meet them and see if I can offer any suggestions to their operation and answer their questions.

LuAnn says it is good I am gone this week as our living room is torn up for the construction underneath.  Major projects like that send me into a tailspin.  I don't adapt to that kind of change very well.

I am eating the contents of the breakfast grab bag I picked up on the way out of the Hampton in Muscatine yesterday.  The apple must have a Brix reading of 2 and I am sure it is less than 8.  Fruit ought to test 12.  These Washington apples are bred and raised for shipping all over the world and is hard as a rock this morning.

The Internet is 10 bucks a day at the Casino Hotel.  I like it all priced together but it does give people an option if they have their own system and I see my friend Rick does.  He is the pilot from Illinois that sprays for FHR Farms LuAnn and I met at Keith's in August on the way to Alberta.  He has the little cellphone connector device for his laptop which I posted from yesterday.

It's time to get going and go learn some more.  I am not sure how much time I will have to post with all of the goings on here but I will have a notebook full of notes to speak from in future blogs.  There is a lot of interesting points in there that points to the faults in about everything we do in food production.

We are indeed a long way from the Garden of Eden and we have a lot of work to do to feed this world and feed it more healthily than we have.

Ed

2 comments:

  1. It was nice to meet you Ed. Information overload is all I can say. Stephen was there to meet with you, but I think you were already on your way.

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  2. It was very nice to meet you, Mike! Thanks for the link to information I am interested in. I am sorry I could not find Stephen, I guess he went to the cover crop seminar.

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