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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Long Emergency in food
  • Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:45:29 -0600


We made it to see Kunstler (Long Emergency book) a couple nights ago in Abq.
who mentioned the need for relocalizing the food supply and how remote the
possibility is for that. Interesting, but the thing that stuck with me was a
comment from a local woman who's an organic certifier in NM. She told us
privately that her fear is too many farmers or growers will be forced out
before collapse, and those of us left will be buried under the avalanche of
the clueless demanding we feed them.

It seems hopeless but maybe the only hope is getting a lot more neighbors and
families to start learning to grow and use what they grow. My conviction is
humus-intensive, natural growing with intelligent techniques is the only way
to make home or market growing practical and profitable, and the mega-farms
are dinosaurs about to face extinction in a world of fossil fuels priced way
out of reach. So we learn Living On The Land or else.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
---------------
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






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