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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] The Coming of Deindustrial Society: A Practical Response
  • Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:13:33 -0600


http://www.hubbertpeak.com/whatToDo/DeindustrialAge.htm

The third thing a community needs is access to basic human requirements, and
above all food. Very large cities are going to become difficult places to be
in the course of the approaching collapse, precisely because there isn't
enough farmland within easy transport range to feed the people now living
there. On the other hand, most American cities of half a million or less are
fairly close to agricultural land that could, in a pinch, be used to grow
food intensively and feed the somewhat reduced population that's likely to be
left after the first stages of the collapse. What's needed is the framework
of a production and distribution system around which this can take shape.

The good news is that this framework already exists; it's called the farmers
market movement. The last two decades have seen an astonishing growth in
farmers markets across the country - the latest figures I've seen, and
they're some years out of date, indicate that farmers markets are a $16
billion a year industry, with most of that money going to small local
farmers. I personally know organic farmers who are able to stay in business,
and support their families on quite small acreages, because they work the
farmers markets. Every dollar spent on locally grown produce from a farmers
market, instead of supermarket fare shipped halfway around the world, is thus
an investment in local sustainability and survival.




  • [Market-farming] The Coming of Deindustrial Society: A Practical Response, Tradingpost, 10/27/2004

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