Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I'd like to see a new job description show up in the near future - Food 
Garden Instructor. Should pay well, full or part time. A lot of people are 
going to go to desperate measures trying to grow food, and they don't have a 
clue. They'll work their butt off and get very little for their efforts. 
Think about Food Garden Instructor - no credentials needed but your own home 
demonstration garden producing like crazy almost year round, with few bought 
inputs and less labor than most. Most gardeners don't know how to let Mother 
Nature do the work for them. Humus-rich soil tilled by earthworms after the 
first year, mulch composting to keep up organic decomposition, reduce water 
use and improve drainage, season extension techniques, and so on. Might add, 
my old degree at TX A&M is less than useless for what's coming. Now my 
teachers are the shelves of books on growing, people on the Internet, and 
most of all the soil and weather, the natural world itself.

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
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On 5/11/2006 at 8:39 AM Terry Wereb wrote:

>Paul
>  I have degree in hand, a piece of property possibly
>in the real near future-- I am willing to teach!!!
>
>A local person asked for help with a small veggie
>garden on Freecycle-- and i am one of the
>responde5rs-- so, I will get a chance to try my one on
>one educational methods!!
>
>Terry W
>
>
>
>> TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> I hope you're right and we do get swamped with
>> people wanting help to learn.