Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

We don't go around with a calculator, but at times we do think about what our 
time and energy is worth. Make something or buy it? Work the farm or get a 
second job? Should a woman get a job to supplement her husband's income, or 
is her time at home worth more to the family?

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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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
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On 5/4/2006 at 2:58 PM Barbara Fischer wrote:

>i never count my labor or that of my son's.  It is part of what we do to
>live in the country.  We will be eating our veggies and milk and meat
>....are you going to charge yourself????  I think that whole thing is
>silly and I do not have the energy to figure it out.
>
>Barbara
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Greg and April
>  To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
>  Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:09 AM
>  Subject: [Livingontheland] How do you figure what your labor is worth?
>
>
>  With Paul's permission, I am addressing the entire list.
>
>  How does anyone figure the worth of their own labor, when they don't get
>paid for it?
>
>  I am asking this question of a couple of different lists that I'm on,
>because I have always had a problem figuring what my labor is worth, when
>trying to figure out what the true cost of gardening ( or for that matter
>any other project I'm doing ).
>
>  For example, compost can either be bought or made, which is more cost
>and/or time effective.
>
>  Once everyone has had a chance to answer, I'll share the results of what
>people on other lists have said.
>
>  Greg H.