[Sca-cooks] OT, OP: Farm database

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

This is pretty cool, and will be cooler when there are more farms in the
database. So if you know a farmer...

[Review below is from ResearchBuzz by Tara Calishain]

** Rodale Starts New Farm Database

The Rodale Institute has started a new database of farms at
http://www.newfarm.org/farmlocator/index.php . Currently
the database is sparsely populated so the site is inviting
farms to add themselves to the database (getting listed in
the database is free.) Searching options include product
category, marketing method, state, and county. A search for
farms in Oklahoma found three results, including the
intriguingly-named Mushroom Planet in Tulsa.

Search results include only farmer name, farm name, city,
county, and state, but if you click on the farmer name you
get a popup window with additional information about the
farm, including farm address, descriptions, what's grown,
and where that farm sells its products. Information
available varies a lot. Mushroom Planet didn't have a lot of
information, but The Redbird Ranch had lots of information
about its farm including a photograph.

In addition to the farm database, this site also contains
the Organic Price Index (which is just what it sounds like -
- a comparison of prices for organic goods) columnists, and
a variety of farming news.

-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"This heavenly city, then, while it sojourns on earth, calls citizens
out of all nations, and gathers together a society of pilgrims of all
languages, not scrupling about diversities in manners, laws, and
institutions whereby earthly peace is secured and maintained, but
recognizing that, however various these are, they all tend to one and
the same end of earthly peace." -- St.  Augustine of Hippo