Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

I just finished reading 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' by Michael
Pollan.  This is an important book for anyone interested in
food issues, soil issues, or petroleum issues in the USA
today.

You can read a little about this book here at the author's
site, and excerpts from it:

http://michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php

It's available at Amazon and other online booksellers, of
course.

Pollan, who writes very well indeed, points out many of the
problems in our current factory food system, plus problems
in the Yuppie-only (because of the high prices) organic food
such as that presently available at Whole Foods, then he
dumps you there.   So this is a flaw in the book, in my
opinion.

He doesn't draw the only possible hopeful conclusion, which
is relocalization of food: people growing as much of their
own food as they can, and buying most of the rest locally.  

Another flaw is that his 'grown and foraged' meal isn't
sustainable, as he points out.  But that's because of the
expensive (even elitist) choices he made for that meal:
other equally good choices *can be* sustainable.

Relocalization of our food *must* happen, and quickly -
that's the scary part:  that it must happen quickly.

If you don't presently realize what a mess our factory food
system has produced now and what an even worse mess it would
be without sufficient oil ...*if we do not relocalize
food*... you'll realize it after you read 'The Omnivore's
Dilemma'.

Pat  
-- 
Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.  

Eat local food, change the world for the better!