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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

bob ford wrote:

> When you have used the term "subsistence", over the years, I always think 
> of some starving farmer in Africa, but I guess I'm just unimaginative.  
> 
I like the term 'sustainable' better. It means that the cycle can go on 
forever without using up the resources. The land feeds the people and 
animals, the people and animals take care of the land. If it's done 
right, it just gets more and more productive without a lot of outside 
inputs. Any input you do bring in (I collect bags of leaves from town, 
add occasional minerals to the soil) is value added to your land.

The sun is the key...a friend calls sunshine "solar dollars" and is 
always thinking of new ways to trap and use them. Gardens, pasture and 
woodlands suck up sunshine and turn it into vegetables, or meat, or 
milk, or eggs, or timber, with very little effort from humans. It really 
is something for nothing.

Lynn Wigglesworth


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