Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I hope you're right and we do get swamped with people wanting help to learn. 
Unemployment and inflation are rising and the fake numbers are bad enough 
already. Gas costs and distribution costs will have to be passed on. Welfare 
is gradually being cut to the bone. Student tuition rising everywhere at 
state colleges. Utilities keep going up. I think simple pressure on the 
pocketbook is going to do more to wake up people than all the talk about peak 
oil.

paul tradingpost@gilanet.com

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau

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On 5/10/2006 at 1:14 PM Carrie Shepard wrote:

>I've had some conversations with a few people this week who when asked if
>the people in their circles of acquaintanceship were talking at all about
>the similarities to the great depression and today's economic situation
>with rising metals $ and a falling dollar.  The combined answers I got
>were "they're only talking about sports, bigger houses, bigger cars,
>daycare, or stuff that really isn't important -- latest local newscasts
>for example."
>
>  I've this feeling that those who know how to live are getting ready to
>get swamped with people seeking help. I've given three garden tours the
>past two weeks,  taught kefir making and soapmaking this week, last week I
>taught drop spindling and knitting to some moms and children.  I suppose I
>hope that the motto of "each one teach one" will go a long way towards
>helping those who come our way.
>  Carrie
>
>
>
><<<< 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. >>>
>