Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Let me assure everyone that the agenda of Soilmakers and SoilmakersGrowing 
will be continued as is on Living On The Land.

Our list description on Living On The Land now reads:

Intensive, organic soil building is basic to growing much more in less space 
with better nutrition, more profitable growing through less bought inputs, 
less need for water, fewer losses from pests and disease, and less 
vulnerability to fossil fuel problems now or in the future. What ways this 
can best be pursued in different soils and climates leaves a lot of room for 
discussion. We deal with the widespread problems of loss of soil minerals, 
humus, nutritional content of produce, and loss of topsoil itself, as well as 
the cost-price squeeze faced by real organic growers, the shrinking supply of 
affordable land for growing and irrigation water, and the need to increase 
the supply of nutritious food while making healthy food more affordable in 
general. Our generation cannot continue to plunder the soil capital of future 
generations.

We include sustainable food growing from home garden to market garden, 
fruits, nuts, berries, fungi, and vegetables, in addition to food animals.

Living On The Land is not a commercial forum for profit promotions, nor a 
chat forum, and is sensibly moderated to ensure discussions are related to 
the topic.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not 
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only 
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.
   - Aldo Leopold in  Round River, 1933