Summer Session Kansan
Thursday, July 5, 1979
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Organic gardens avoid chemical hazards
By DANNY CAPLAN
Staff Reporter
If a garden seems to be growing a bigger crop of weeds and insects than vegetables, spraying with chemical pesticides and fertilizer is one way to combat the problem.
Another way, organic gardening, can avoid some of the potential hazards of synthetic chemicals, two VISTA workers said last week.
Gardens provide hobbies money-making enterprises
By DANNY CAPLAN Staff Reporter
The workers, Dan Bentley and Ken Lassman, are involved in a two-year VISTA project sponsored by Kansas Organic Producers, a grassroots organization that provides food production methods. VISTA stands for Volunteers in Service to America.
People who want produce with a homegrown taste but who do not want to toil in backyard gardens to get it still have a chance. Area gardeners often sell their excess crops at prices lower than those at local grocery stores.
Elton Fenton, Bonner Springs, said recently that he and his wife brought about half of their garden's harvest to sell each year, and that the farmer's Market, 8 and Vermont streets.
Fenton was selling green beans for 40 cents a pound and zucchini for 25 cents a pound. Local grocery stores were selling green beans for 69 to 79 cents a pound and zucchini for 59 to 79 cents a pound. Fenton had cabbage for 20 cents a pound while area stores had cabbage priced at 25 to 39 cents a pound.
"We don't weigh our own hand," Fenton's wife said. "We just put a little more weight on it."
FENTON SAID that along with a low price, homegrown produce tasted better because it was picked when it was ripe, unlike commercial produce which is picked to ripen on the store's shelf or in the customer's home.
"Those vegetables haven't had the sunshine to get the flavor."
garden-grown produce at about two-thirds the price of local stores.
Dulifta, who sells his produce from a stand in front of his house, said he had been growing produce since the early 1950s on a five-acre plot adjacent to his house. He cultivates the land with the help of two grandons and a 20-horsepower tractor.
Dolifka he also sold his produce to local grocery stores.
BILL GADBERRY, produce manager at Dillon's, 1740 Massachusetts St., said his store sometimes purchased homegrown produce if they could buy it in quantity.
"We hate to promote a local item and not have enough." Gadberry said.
He said Dillon's buys local produce for about the same price they pay for produce from a wholesaler and sells it at the price of regular commercial produce.
Diane Luber, co-manager of The Community Mercantile, a food co-op at 700 Maine St., said that the Co-op tried to walk in the wholesale price to walk-in sellers.
of the store's produce was marked up
per item and 25 percent for retail
customers, she said.
Dolifla, who said that on a good day he could make up to $100 selling his produce.
"It's just a hobby, but it's run into a lot of
people. You don't believe me, come down
and pull the string."
The use of synthetic pesticides has various backwards, Bentley said, such as health problems which could result from contact with pesticides.
UPSET STOMACHs and rashes are common reactions to synthetic pesticides, he said, and death can occur if the reaction occurs. Many long-term effects are not yet known.
The VISTA project tries to inform people of the alternatives to pesticides, Lassmanism.
Bentley said that sprays made from yaypee pepper or garlic applied to the skin can be used.
"The sprays normally don't kill, they just repel the insects."
He said that when a chemical pesticide is applied, it killed the helpful insects as well as the harmful ones, which might affect the whole eco-system.
Bentley said birds that ate the poisoned insects might die, reducing the insects' natural predators and making the insect obsolem worse in the long run.
Instead of spraying, Bentley suggested that helpful insects, such as ladybugs and marmalade pups, could be released into the tree to prey on the crop-destroying pests.
IF THE INSECT infestation is small,
Bentley said, pickin' out the insects
by hand.
Lassman said organic methods also could be used to control weeds.
Covering the ground surrounding the plants with hay or grass clippings keeps the weeds from germinating by keeping the sunlight out, he said.
Another advantage of the method is that it holds moisture, reducing the amount of water needed.
Compost retains nutrients, soil aeration and good providing nutrients, soil aeration and good
THE VISTA workers said they advocated using compost, a mixture of decomposed plant and animal materials including grass and soil. They also noted, a number of other organic materials,
TO DEMONSTRATE organic gardening techniques, Bentley said, the VISTA program supports a model garden at the university's Botany department and a garden plot in North Lawrence, which it
dividuals are allowed to cultivate if they follow organic gardening techniques.
Lassman said VISTA not only tried to make people aware of organic gardening, but also of how to prepare the produce once it was picked.
How the food is processed or prepared alters the product's nutritional value, he said. Steaming vegetables is preferred to boiling them because steam helps soften the vegetables' vitamins and minerals.
He said dehydrating fruits and vegetables was better than canning them.
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"It's a very efficient method of food preservation both in terms of energy conservation and nutritional preservation," he said.
If a solar dryer is used, the dehydration process requires no energy, he said.
Bentley said VISTA also distributed information, showed films and conducted classes which promoted organic gardening and food preparation.
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1006 W. 2fth st, 2000 W. 3fth st
1966 W. 2fth st
171 mobile home . br. partially furnished
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B-fat Freezer and B-fat Buffet Clintresses. Good
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Typewriter, Adler, manual portable with carry-
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8769
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Small bookcase $15.00, excellent RW work
bookcase $27.95, excellent NRG work
(never) $34.95, some aca bush kit $ 84.95
$64.95
Germanhardt Piccolo, temperature condition. Silver-
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Stero system: KW 600 receive, KW 300 serve
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Call Kim 841-595-3882
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