[Homestead] Transitioning

Clansgian at wmconnect.com Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Sat Sep 10 08:56:26 EDT 2005


> Northern California.  When we lived in "Wine Country" they were all over 
> the 
> place like an invasive weed!  Now we are up in the Alps where the main crop 
> is rocks <g>
> 

In VIctor Hanson's "The Other Greeks" he cites an instance where a city 
dweller was passing through the high marginal land and came across a farmer piling 
rocks to make retaining walls for his terraced crops.  When the traveler asked 
him what crops he was growing, the farmer replied "Aches and pains."





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