Monday, July 18, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Gardener sows seeds of organic productivity
Staff Writer
By DEENAL, KERBOW
Editor's note: A senior Carter administration farm official recently told Congress that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would be vigilant in its programs to protect consumers against chemical contamination to provide the chemicals and possible
However, the official, Deputy USDA Secretary John C. White also said, "We are the farmers' advocate, and we don't intend to shirk our responsibilities to them."
The following is the last in a series of four articles concerning the 'chemical control' of solvents.
Evelyn Bergmann, an organic gardener who lives in Perry, says that organically grown foods taste better than and are more nutritious than foods that are filled with chemical additives.
"You are what you eat," she said during an interview last week. "I believe that what you put in your mouth determines what kind of health you're going to have. I have a healthy family, and I think it's because they eat healthy foods."
Bergmann said that her organic gardening had been successful and that the key ingredient was "light."
"A healthy soil is like a healthy person," she said, "and you don't have a good soil if you don't take care of it."
SHE USES HER OWN test kit, but said that the county extension agent will sample their soil and send it to the state (or testing at a cost less than $1).
Bergmann said that a good soil needed the right balance of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash but that it also needed many other nutrients.
"Plants need three main things," she said, "and that's what's in chemical fertilizers. But they need many other things—like a body that needs vitamins and minerals, not just proteins and carbohydrates."
She said, "I believe that soil will right itself if you give it time," even after being thinned.
BUT, SHE SAID that a person could help to keep his garden soil in balance by using compost. Compost bloodmilion will raise the nitrogen level; biomeal will raise the phosphorus level; wood ashes from a fireplace will raise the carbon level; an all-around good organic fertilizer
Bergmann said she didn't think the plants in her organic garden were harmed by insects any more than plants grown chemically.
"I think or ordinarily people spray when they see something they think shouldn't be
She said she's trying a new deterrent for the insects that do harm her crumbs.
there," she said, "but it's not really harmful at all."
"YOU CATCH the BUG that bugs you a lot," she said, "run it through a blender and spray it back on the plants, and the rest of them will leave you alone."
"My son thinks it's terrible if I put grazchoppers in my blender; but what happens?"
She said she would never use chemical salves because they alter the soil balance.
"You need an active soil," she said. "You don't spray because you don't want to destroy the balance that nature intended to be there."
Hamilton Tyler said in "Organic Gardening Without Poison," one book from Bergmanm's large organic gardenkeeping series. The HE SAYS, "IT TAKES five hundred billion bacteria to weigh a pound, and in each acre of topsoil there are from thirty to eighty billion bacteria."
"Toxic mixes of chemicals produce a chain reaction in the life-world below us, and some of the results have proved to be both long-lasting and disastrous," he says.
Bergmann said she helped to keep her soil in balance by turning the soil under, using burns, grass clippings, leaves and keeping a compost heap.
She said, "Things you buy in supermarkets are all grown chemically, and their friends often leave something to be desired.
"Volume growers are interested only in food that looks good, ships well and is disease-resistant. They want to get the biggest market possible but are not interested in how something trades."
Kenyon Blunt, assistant to the director of financial aid at the University of Kansas and student employment counselor, said, "there are not many jobs right now, but I expect more on campus to open up around these departments start hiring their fall help."
Students who are still looking for summer jobs can find them only if they are willing to settle for temporary positions, according to three area employment counselors.
Ed Mills, manager of the Lawrence Job Service Center, 833 Ohio St., said recently that there were a few spot jobs of short duration available.
MANPOWER TEMPORARY SERVICES, 19th Street and Haskell Avenue hires many students for temporary work, according to Shirley Martin, manager.
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Martin said that the company had many openings for temporary work in a variety of
Blunt said Aug. 1 to mid-September, especially the week before enrollment, was "very good."
MILLS SAID THAT the Lawrence Job Service Center, which is administered through the division of employment of the Kansas Human Resources Department, lists a few temporary positions in general labor, construction and agriculture.
Blunt said he took job descriptions from employers seeking help and posts them on the job placement board outside the financial aid office, 26 Strong Hall. He suggested that students looking for employment should check the board often.
She said that even if a person didn't save money gardening organically, "if it tastes better—and I feel it's better for you—well, you're recycling, and it's worth it."
He said that students who are interested in temporary work could come to the center.
Martin said Manpower was designed to supply qualified workers to businesses in Lawrence on a temporary basis. The jobs can last one day to three months, she said, depending on what the customer needs and what the job is.
TODAY: ENTRIES FOR THE DOUBLES
TENNIS TOURNAMENT, sponsored by
Recreation Services, should be returned by
p. 5 p.m. to Room 208, Robinson Gymnasium.
TONIGHT: An SUA FILM, "Ride the Whirlwind," will be at 7:30 in woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union. A SENIOR HIGH CAMP HONORS RECITAL will be at 7:30 in Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
TOMORROW: The DOUBLES TENNIS TOURNAMENT, sponsored by Recreation Services, will begin at 3 p.m. at the courts near Robinson Gymnasium. A NENIOR HIGH CAMP HONORS RECITAL will be at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
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