Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>]

And you're probably ahead of me on home growing. We're working on small scale 
production in high desert ranchland here in west central NM with 90-day 
growing season. Too many around on welfare have lots of room to grow but not 
a clue.  I'm not familiar with soy and wheat - how do you process it?

paul@largocreekfarms.com
http://medicinehill.net

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On 11/27/2004 at 3:34 PM Pat Meadows wrote:

>>
>>What few realize is, if the local food movement grows enough it will take
>a bite out of agribusiness where it hurts most - marketing. No law, no
>company can force us to eat what we don't want. This is the Achilles Heel
>of agribusiness. We vote with our feet and our purse. No government
>policies can protect the profits of agribusiness if they can't sell enough
>of what they produce.
>>
>
>This much, we can certainly agree on.
>
>Maybe they can't force us to eat the junk on supermarket
>shelves.  But they can certainly try to make sure that
>nothing else is available.  We do have to eat something!
>And it must be affordable.  There's the problem.
>
>Yes, we should all work to solve this problem.  Yes, I am
>(as you are).
>
>I grow as large a percentage of our food as I possibly can.
>I buy soybeans and wheat direct from the farmer:  they
>aren't local and they aren't organic.  But they are (a)
>non-GMO and (b) direct from the farmer and (c) outside the
>mainstream of agribusiness.  This is good.  It's not
>perfect, but it's good.
>
>Pat
>
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