A Survey

Section A: What you eat

For the following questions, please check one:

1. I consider myself:
An omnivore (I eat ANYTHING)
A picky omnivore (I eat from all food groups, but I don't like certain things, and/or I have allergies that limit what I can eat)
A carnivore (I eat MEAT, I like MEAT, vegetables are what food eats!)
A vegetarian (I don't eat meat)
A 'humane' vegetarian (I don't eat land animals, but I do eat fish)
A strict vegetarian (I don't eat any animal products, including eggs and milk)
A fruititarian (I only eat fruit, and nothing else)

2. Religious dietary restrictions:
I don't follow any religious-based restrictions
I keep kosher
I am a vegetarian for religious reasons
I don't eat cows, they are sacred animals
I don't usually follow dietary restrictions of any kind, but I do restrict my diet and/or fast for certain religious holidays or ceremonies
I only eat fish on Friday, but meat is fine the rest of the week
I only eat locally-produced foods in season, according to the natural order of things

3. Dieting:
I never diet. I eat what I want and when I want.
I've dieted in the past, and/or might in the future, but it's a very rare event.
Sometimes I'm on a diet, sometimes I'm not.
I'm ALWAYS on a diet, or if I'm not, then I should be.

4. Nutrition:
I'm very concerned about getting good nutrition in a good balance.
I eat a variety of healthy foods, but I don't worry too much about it.
Sometimes I think about nutrition, and sometimes I don't.
I'm a junk food junkie. I eat chocolate, salt, sugar, and fat every day!

For the following question, please choose all that apply:

5. I like:
Nice, normal, typical American food
The usual non-American stuff (Chinese food, for example)
Exotic and different foods

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Section B: How you shop

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. I buy my food:
In a grocery store
In a health food store
From the local farmer's market
Over the Internet
From mail-order catalogs
Direct from the farmer, traveling to the farm to get it
I grow my own food in my own garden

2. I like fruits and vegetables:
Fresh, right off the plant
Canned
Frozen
Sun-dried (raisins, dates)
Dehydrated

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Section C: Your values

For the following questions, please choose one answer:

1. In regard to organic fruits and vegetables:
I ONLY eat organic
I eat organic when I can, but most of the time, I have to make due without
I would eat organic if I could GET it
I think organic is better, but I can't always afford it
I don't see any big deal over whether something is organic or not
Actually, I don't like organic - the stuff sprayed with pesticides is better

2. In regard to organic meats:
I ONLY eat organic
I eat organic when I can, but most of the time, I have to make due without
I would eat organic if I could GET it
I think organic is better, but I can't always afford it
I don't see any big deal over whether something is organic or not
Huh? They MAKE organic meat?
I don't eat meat

3. About humane treatment of animals:
I never use any animal products of any sort, because animals should not be slaves to human greed.
It is very important to me that any animal product I use comes from an animal who is treated well, and who is not killed for me to use said product.
It is very important to me that any animal product I use comes from an animal who is treated well throughout his life. It is necessary to kill animals to get meat and leather, but it is important to me that it is done as humanely as possible.
I try not to think about the animals behind what I use. I just pick the stuff off the shelf and take it home.
I think that animals shouldn't suffer needlessly, but it is more important to do things efficiently and cheaply, in accordance with economic reality.
I enjoy the suffering of animals. I only buy products that come with a certificate of torture.

4. About the use of leather, skins, and other by-products:
I think we should not kill animals, so therefore we should not be using these things.
If you're going to kill an animal, then you should use ALL parts of the animal. You should use that animal's meat AND that animal's hide, as well as anything else you can possibly use. Waste is the greatest crime.
I love furs and/or leather, and I don't really worry about how we get them.

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Section D: Ordering

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. In what ways might you be willing to purchase from us?
Come to the farm and select purchases on site
Select purchases from choices brought to a gathering you were attending anyway
Order in advance, and have it delivered at a gathering you were attending anyway
Have orders delivered to your home
Have a standing order delivered at regular intervals (weekly, etc) to your home
Order, and have it shipped via the post office or UPS
At a farmer's market
I would only purchase from a distributor or grocery store
Purchase from YOU? You have GOT to be kidding.
Other

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Part 2: Food

Section A: Fruits and Vegetables

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. How do you feel about locally-grown produce?
It's cheaper than imported produce, because they don't have to tack large shipping costs into the price.
It's fresher than imported produce, because it gets to the market sooner after the farmer picks it.
Imported produce provides more choices, because you can get things that are locally out of season or that won't grow locally at all.
I don't know the difference between local and imported produce, and I don't care.

2. Which statements below match your thoughts about growing produce in greenhouses?
A simple greenhouse extends the growing season, so you can get the produce you want for a longer time.
In a climate-controlled greenhouse, you can grow anything you want at any time of year, without regard to what's going on outside. You can have a continuous crop, even in the dead of winter.
If you are very careful, you can grow produce that is both organic and also bug-free inside a greenhouse, because you can keep the bugs out.
Food growing in a greenhouse is better protected against birds, rodents, and other critters, so you get a larger crop.
You can grow things in a greenhouse that will not grow in the local climate outside, giving you a greater variety of food without importing it.
Food grown outside the natural way tastes better than food grown in a greenhouse.
Local greenhouses are a great way to reduce the benefits of importing food.
Greenhouses are an environmentally sound way to grow more food.
Greenhouses are against the natural order of things and should not be used.
Other

3. What kind of fruit would you buy?
Apple
Pear
Peach
Plum
Orange
Grapefruit
Strawberry
Blueberry
Blackberry
Red Raspberry
Black Raspberry
Golden Raspberry
Elderberry
Gooseberry
Kiwi
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Honeydew melon
Other melons
Starfruit
Passion fruit
Pomegranate
Banana
Pineapple
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None

4. What kind of vegetables would you buy?
Potato
Corn
Carrot
Tomato
Lettuce
Cabbage
Peas
Green beans
Lima beans
Other beans
Lentils
Other legumes
Onions
Radish
Celery
Rhubarb
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Squash
Pumpkin
Beets
Alfalfa
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None

Section Comments:

Section B: Grains

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. What kinds of grains would you buy?
Corn
Wheat
Rye
Oats
Barley
Amaranth
Rice
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None

2. What kinds of grains do you use to make home-baked bread?
Corn
Wheat
Rye
Oats
Barley
Amaranth
Rice
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
I don't bake my own bread

3. What kinds of bread would you buy?
Whole Wheat
White
Rye
Amaranth
Pumpernickel
Potato bread
Cornbread
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)

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Section C: Eggs

For the following questions, please choose one answer:

1. What is the most important factor when choosing which kind of eggs to eat?
Taste
Color of eggshell
Price
Availability - whatever's easiest to get works
Size of egg
Specific use I had in mind - different eggs for different things
Shelf life - I don't use eggs very often, but I like to have them handy
I don't eat eggs

2. Have you ever eaten an egg other than a chicken egg?
Yes
No

3. What color chicken egg do you prefer? That is, what kind do you buy most often?
I insist on the Leghorn egg (this is THE breed of chicken who lays the eggs you buy in your typical supermarket), because it's what I'm used to eating.
I want white eggshells, but I don't care what kind of chicken lays them.
I think the brown eggs are much better than the white ones.
I need white eggshells for Easter egg dying and/or craft projects, but I prefer brown for eating.
I need white eggshells for Easter egg dying and/or craft projects, but I don't care what color they are the rest of the time.
I get exotic colors in eggs whenever I can. They're cool.
I don't care what color my eggs are. I only care how they taste.
I don't eat chicken eggs.

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

4. What color chicken eggs will you purchase?
White
Brown
"tinted" (very light tan; very subtle, light brown; slightly greenish tinge)
Colors -- Blue, Green, Red, Orange, Turquoise, Tan
I don't eat chicken eggs.

5. What species of bird eggs will you consider buying?
Chicken
Jungle Fowl
Guinea
Pheasant
Quail
Duck
Goose
Swan
Peafowl (that's peacocks and peahens)
Ostrich
Emu
Rhea
Turkey
Pigeon
Other, specific request:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None, I simply don't use eggs

6. What species of bird eggs do you actively want or need, for either craft or food purposes? That is, is there a specific type of egg that you've been searching for, or that you regularly want? (Note: the last question asked, "what would you buy if it was in front of you"; THIS question asks "what do you want offered").
Chicken
Jungle Fowl
Guinea
Pheasant
Quail
Duck
Goose
Swan
Peafowl (that's peacocks and peahens)
Ostrich
Emu
Rhea
Turkey
Pigeon
Other, specific request:
None, I simply don't use eggs

Section Comments:

Section D: Milk

For the following questions, please choose one answer:

1. What kind of milk do you usually buy?
Whole milk
2% milk
1% milk
Skim milk
Goat milk
Soy milk
Other:
I don't drink milk

2. Do you buy different milk for your children than you do for yourself? If you do not have children, then WOULD you buy different milk for your children?
Yes; whole milk for the kids, and lower fat milk for me
Yes; goat milk for kids under 2, and cow milk for the rest of us
Yes; goat milk for kids under 2, whole milk for the older kids, and lower fat milk for me
No, we all drink the same thing

3. Have you ever had goat milk?
Yes
No

4. Experts recommend that children under 2 should drink goat milk instead of cow milk, in order to prevent early allergies while still getting the nutritional benefits of milk. If you had children under 2, would you:
Find goat milk for my children somehow, no matter how difficult it is to get
Make special trips to a health food store or to a local farmer with dairy goats, as long as it isn't too very inconvenient to do so
Buy goat milk if you could find it conveniently in your grocery store
Buy cow milk, even if the goat milk was right next to it on the grocery shelf
Not give my children milk at all

5. Have you ever had any "exotic" milk? That is, milk from an animal other than cows or goats?
Yes, and it was good
Yes, but it was terrible
Yes, from several animals, and some was good, and some was bad
No, but I'd like to
No, and I don't want to, either

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

6. What do you want in milk (from any animal)?
High fat content - tastes better!
Low fat content - watching my weight!
High protein content
No lactose (yes, really, some animals don't produce lactose in their milk)
Good taste
Long shelf life
Freshness
No hormones
No chemicals
I don't drink milk

7. What kind of milk would you be willing to try?
Goat
Sheep
Camel
Yak
Other, specific
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None, thanks

8. What kind of milk are you actively looking for a source for?
Goat
Sheep
Camel
Yak
Other
None

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Section E: Butter, Jams, etc.

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. What kind of butter do you normally use?
Plain real butter
Salted real butter
Butter substitutes ("I can't believe it's not butter!")
Margarine

2. What attributes do you think makes a good butter?
Lots of fat
Very little fat
Color - should be yellow
Color - should be white
Taste
Cooking attributes (helps not burn things in pan, for example)

3. What kind of jams do you like?
Jelly
Jam
Preserves
Marmalade
Fruit butter
Aspic
None

4. What fruits make good jams?
Grape
Strawberry
Blueberry
Raspberry
Blackberry
Elderberry
Apple
Orange
Peach
Other, specific
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None

5. What other, non-fruit foods make good jams?
Mint
Other, specific
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)

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Part 3: Non-food items

Section A: Feathers

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. How would you use feathers?
To give to the kids
For craft projects and art intended to decorate the home
In Christmas tree ornaments
In clothing and accessories (barrettes, hats, etc)
In cat toys, and other animal toys
In child toys
In adult toys
In just for fun craft projects
As quills, to write with
In cleaning tools
Loose, just for enjoyment
In loose arrangements, like flowers
Other:
I wouldn't use feathers for anything

2. How would you purchase feathers?
In loose multi-packs, with a wide variety of feathers in each package of different styles and colors - preferably from many different birds
In packs of the same type of feather and/or the same base color
Just one feather of a certain type and color
Already made into the product I want - clothes, art, toys, etc.
I wouldn't buy feathers

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Section B: Fiber

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. At what stages do you use fiber?
Spinning raw fiber into thread or yarn
Knitting and/or Crocheting
Weaving
Sewing
Stitching (decorative needlework of all sorts)
Quilting
Felting
Wearing finished products (clothing)
Using finished products in your home

2. At what level would you purchase fiber?
Raw, right off the plant or animal
Cleaned and ready for spinning or felting
Yarn
Thread
Fabric
Felted
As a finished, ready-to-use product

3. What plant fibers interest you? That is, what would you use?
Cotton
Flax (linen)
Other, specific
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)

4. What animal fibers interest you? That is, what would you use?
Wool (from sheep)
Angora (from rabbits)
Cashmere (from goats)
Mohair (from goats)
Bashkir (from the Bashkir Curly horse)
Llama fleece
Alpaca fleece
Vicuna fleece
Camel hair
Yak wool
Qiviut (from musk oxen)
Pashmina (from cashmere goats raised in Himalaya environments of bitter cold, low protein diets, and thin air; these factors make a softer, thinner, and warmer fiber)
Shahtoosh (from chirus)
Silk (the cocoon of the silkworm)
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)

Section Comments:

Section C: Bamboo and Rattan

For the following questions, please choose all that apply:

1. Do you, or would you, need raw bamboo for any of the following:
Making furniture
Household decorations
Room dividers / curtains
Japanese practice swords (shenai)
Floor boards
Floor mats
Baskets
House building
Gazebos
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None

2. Do you, or would you, need raw rattan for any of the following:
Making furniture
Household decorations
Room dividers / curtains
SCA weapons (or other reenactment or practice weapons)
House building
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None

3. What sort of finished products would you buy from bamboo or rattan?
Furniture
Household decorations
Room dividers / curtains
Japanese practice swords (shenai)
SCA weapons (or other reenactment or practice weapons)
Floor boards
Floor mats
Baskets
Gazebo
Other, specific:
Other (as in, sure, I might consider it if you offered it as a choice)
None

Section Comments:

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