Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

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
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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