Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Gwen Giffen" <ggiffen@1st.net>]

I don't think I attempt to do this unless I'm trying to justify not doing 
something.

However, this topic seems to have varying semantics and dimensions, and 
there is one dimension I don't see that could use mentioning. Not to make 
things more complicated, but, there are health benefits and risks to certain 
kinds of labor. Hard work that involves aerobic excercise may over the 
course of a person's lifetime reduce health costs substantially, such as 
expensive cardiac prescriptions or hospitalizations. However, it may wear on 
the joints, necessitating joint replacements earlier in life, or expose a 
person to diseases nonfarmers would not be exposed to. If one is going to 
figure the value of their labor, it is going to get more complicated than 
doing taxes. They are going to have to figure in depreciation or investment 
into the human body.

Gwen