COMMUNITY
Alternative farmers have high hopes
By June Williams
Emerald Contributor
Two small greenhouses
tucktxf aw,iv in South Eugene
muv have a large impar t on the
lrx:al forxf supply once the
community finds them, that is
The greenhouses were started
as an alternative to large agri
business produce Douglass
Moser, who begnn the Commu
nitv Supported Agriculture pro
ject last October, said he hopes
the program will tier rime popu
lar in Eugene This would elim
inate buying through a retail
food chain, he said
'Ultimately we'd like to
work directly with the consum
er,” said Vince Devoto, one of
Moser's helpers on the project
"That would eliminate the mid
dle man It would still lie more
expensive than Safeway, but
less than Sundance "
Devoto said the only option
the fledgling program has now
is to sell its produce, u mixture
of salad greens, to local food
stores, until they can publicize
the business.
"We deliver about »>() pounds
of salad a wttek to Sundanr e,
The Kivu, f riendly's foods and
New frontier Market," Devoto
said. "That's only a small por
tion of the greenhouse, for
awhile, we could have picked
70 pounds a day, but there just
wasn't a market for it
Although the produce is still
connected to agribusiness, "it's
local and you don't have to use
a whole lot of gas to ship It
around,” Devoto said.
Eventually they hope to deal
only with consumers, either de
livering directly to their homes
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Vinca Davoto (kneeling) and Douglass Moser hope small green
houses hke this one can replace large agribusiness
of organizing a central dropoff
spot for thn product!
Our aim is to work with thn
people who are going to eat it.
Moser said "That's wh) we're
not certified organic That
would allow the food to he
shipped anywhere We want to
know where the food is going
"L'verytimo I hear about a
new organic farm in places like
the Salinas Valley. 1 laugh
What about all the pesticides in
the ground water? What about
all the air pollution?"
Moser said he believes in
small interaction, such as using
five acres instead ol 500 One
of the reasons I started this
thing was because I don’t like
large scale.” Moser said That
includes America's large scale
eating habits, especially sugar
consumption, he said
"People have to change their
eating habits The sugar intake
per capita is a half a pound per
day," he said
Miisit belies es this t\ pita,
diet is killing people, ,ind lti.il
mi it’lv is setting the offer is of ii
in lic.irl attat ks ami hvperat live
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"Timi! is growing short." he
said. "This could he the last
generation
Moser sees humans as a giant
heard of buffalo stampeding to
ward a t Idf Only the ones out
side the heard won’t he swept
over the edge
For awhile 1 wanted to save
humanity Now I’m content to
work with the ones on the
edge, he said
Neither Moser or Devoto
know how their project will
turn out Moser said there is
still a lot of work to lie done in
order to make community-sup
ported agru ulture a reality
"One of the reasons whv I
started this greenhouse was so I
could learn." he said
"There's so much potential
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