Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

We've been urging grow local, buy local, for some time. Also we've been
pushing small, local growers to get business smart and adopt proven methods
of cost cutting. As fuel, fertilizer, and chemical prices keep climbing the
only way to get a cost advantage is for growers to use methods that allow
them to cut down or give up fossil fuel machinery, chemical inputs, and
transportation - and for others to simply grow their own.  We're working on
this where we are, and succeeding locally. Getting TVs from Taiwan is one
thing; getting tomatoes from Mexico or potatoes from Peru, etc. - giving up
much of our own food production capacity - is another thing entirely. 

This article is scary. 

The Outsourcing of Food
http://www.alternet.org/story/26031/
American farmers are battling a new kind of pest -- imports from
international rivals who can produce essential foodstuffs cheaper than they
can be grown here.
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paul, tradingpost@gilanet.com
http://medicinehill.net

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all
our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
foster its renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry