[Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages

bob ford bobford79 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 30 14:55:59 EST 2008


I know Sandy.  I still own property in the desert also.  I was just thinking in general, if there were a 'safe' way.  There are no easy answers.  Good to hear from you................bobford


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--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages
> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 12:52 PM
> Hey, Bob -
>  
> I'm just now catching up.
>  
> And I kinda don't like the phrase 'barren
> desert'. We who live in it - by  
> choice - already have enough of a problem with heavy metals
> from the Marine  
> Logistics base and the Sheriff's Department busting
> meth kitchens and dumping  
> all kinds of crap into our groundwater.
>  
> When I bought my piece of dirt out here, in '88, my
> water table was at 12'.  
> Now, to get to potable water, we have to drill down to
> almost 600', to  a 
> whole other aquifer.
>  
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/30/2008 9:50:17 A.M. Pacific Standard
> Time,  
> bobford79 at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> I know  you were being funny (below) , but I thought kind
> of the same thing.  
>  Either ship the stuff to the barren desert (okay it
> 'would' disrupt the 
> desert  eco-system); Or; maybe some asrea of poor soil
> quality nearer to maryland, 
> and  wait for 'time' to cure the
> 'additives' problem, while providing 
> 'future' soil  enhancement.  Once again, the fuel
> and money for  
> transaportation...................bobford
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> ---  On Sun, 11/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth
> <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> 
> > I read the whole story. What they need to do is take 
> the chicken factories 
>  from Maryland and relocate them to the 
> Dakotas...voile...free fertilizer 
> for  the crops, and a clean Chesapeake  Bay.
> > 
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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