[Market-farming] are you a global warming deniers?
BillOhio
billohio at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 10:44:37 EDT 2007
This is a favorite peeve of mine. Folks want a home in the country, so they
buy 5 acres with restrictive deeds that prevent any meaningful rural
activities, like farming for profit or in some cases even putting up a
clothesline, and they build a huge house on it. They then demand the same
services they had in the city they wanted to "escape" from, and start
complaining about the activities their farming neighbors engage in to make a
living. Next thing in are the malls. Schools get crowded, roads become
inadequate, and the taxes rise to pay for all the newly-required services.
Next thing you know, the only thing rural is the street names commemorating
a lifestyle long gone. This isn't so much about population growth, IMO, as
it is about developers' greed and the cheap gasoline and subsidized highway
system which allow people to push ever further from their place of
employment at the expense of rural communities and the environment. IMO,
miles of perfectly-manicured lawns with huge houses are an ecological
desert--where are the rabbits, insects, birds, and diverse plants which made
these beautiful acres their home in the past?
True story--a friend at work asked me what to look out for while inspecting
a 10-acre lot he and his wife were interested in buying to move to the
country from a small city near here. He said you know, the thing that
concerns us is, we walked over the property and when we got back to the car
we each had TICKS on us!!!!!! Maybe 2 or 3 on each of us!!!!!! WHAT CAN WE
SPRAY ON THE PROPERTY TO GET RID OF THEM??????? I tried to explain that
ticks are part of the environment and food chain, and that killing them
meant killing a host of other organisms as well. He looked at me as if I was
an idiot (well, maybe I am at that :) )
Bill Huhman
Central Ohio, formerly from the Missouri hills
On 9/14/07, Leigh Hauter <bullrunfarm at hughes.net> wrote:
>
> (our farm that once was out in the country is now surrounded by housing
> developments with roads and paved shopping malls and the sky that was
> once relatively clear of pollution is now thick with oily exhaust).
>
>
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