Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Right. His co-op is a better distribution solution. What we're working on 
here is a better production solution, and my belief is humus-rich soil is the 
key to making growing worthwhile and profitable. I rely on many sources for 
this solution.

As  you know I'm all for local. But in the not too distant future they may 
have a security problem even with more or less local distribution. Hungry 
people - or thieves trying to make a buck - can hijack food trucks. It's 
harder to hijack your garden. Stealing home grown produce from the garden 
would be slim pickings for thieves.  Grow your own is ultimate local. And 
harder for government dumdums to track.  Just try to microchip my carrots ;-)

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 5/13/2006 at 12:38 PM Pat Meadows wrote:

>On Fri, 12 May 2006 19:23:48 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>
>>Robert's co-op is definitely better than the usual grocery distribution
>system, but not a final answer in all respects. I agree it's one way to
>get local food to the city. But the root problem is, you can't distribute
>food that's not being grown, and the dominant commercial model is failing.
>They do their thing, we do ours. We focus on the production of healthy
>food, locally grown and consumed on a much wider basis everywhere, and the
>key is in healthy growing soil. Grow your own and sell locally under the
>radar.
>>
>
>Robert's Co-op distributes ONLY locally grown food.  People
>in his area ARE growing it.
>
>In our area, you'd have a heck of a time not starving.  This
>is not a farming area (too mountainous, really, except for
>dairy farms - which are dying off rapidly).
>
>But Robert's Co-op sells only locally produced food:  that's
>*the whole point* of it.
>
>Pat
>--
>Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.
>
>Eat local food, change the world for the better!