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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Transitioning
  • Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:56:26 EDT


> 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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