Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Beautiful!  Pretty much our reason for putting our time into all this instead 
of issue organizing. Politics is divisive; living on the land is cooperative. 
It always amuses me to see people protesting the system with one hand and 
feeding it with the other through their lifestyle. Economic depression soon 
is the most optimistic scenario, IMHO. I believe positive action to regain 
control over the necessities of life, with friends, family, neighbors etc., 
is the best antidote for helplessness.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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   “If economics is reconceived in the service of community, it will begin 
with a concern for agriculture and specifically for the production of food. 
This is because a healthy community will be a relatively self-sufficient one. 
A community’s dependency on outsiders for its mere survival weakens it. It is 
often unable to develop the policies it desires for the sake of its own 
members, since its survival depends on terms dictated by others. The most 
fundamental requirement for survival is food. Hence, how and where food is 
grown is foundational to an economics for community.”
   --Herman Daly and John Cobb

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On 3/31/2006 at 7:15 AM Carrie Shepard wrote:


>  You can waste exhorbitant amounts of energy on political endeavors to no
>avail,never more so than today.  I've decided that the best way we can
>make a difference is to know our neighbors, encourage them to grow their
>own food or buy the food they know is grown healthily and keep producing
>the best.   The fruit sells itself eventually when people SEE the
>difference real food makes.