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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>
  • To: "self-reliance, networking, and simple living, for small farm sustainability, rural independence and security." <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Nine Steps Towards Family Food Security By Robert Waldrop
  • Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:08:03 -0500

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 09:59:34 -0700, you wrote:

>Nine Steps Towards Family Food Security By Robert Waldrop
>http://www.oklahomafood.org/9steps.php
>
>1. Grow some of your own food.
>Plant fruit and nut trees, herbs, berry bushes, and other perennial food
>crops. Preserve heirloom varieties of plants and animals. Encourage schools
>and churches to start gardens. Grow greens and vegetables by your back door
>where they can be easily picked and brought inside the house.
>
>2. Eat with the season.
>Don't eat the same boring foods every day, 365 days a year. Experience the
>varied and changing tastes of the seasonal foods available here in Oklahoma.
>Fresh produce imported to Oklahoma from

Along these lines, I'd like to put in a (very well-deserved)
plug for Robert Waldrop's 'Better Times' Almanac, currently
in its Fifth Edition.

http://www.bettertimesinfo.org/2004index.htm

It is available online in its entirety. Or you can send for
the paper version, hopefully enclosing a couple of bucks for
printing and mailing costs. (Although a donation is not
required, it's certainly a good thing to do.)

This is the best guide I know for beginners and useful for
more experienced folks too.

Pat
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