Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Let's keep this in mind:  there is no individual, isolated self
sufficiency. It's only in local community, specialization of labor, and
networking. Nobody makes or grows everything, never did. Seed saving is
always a good idea, but in some cases we need someone with some sort of
equipment to harvest it and sell it. 

In several places I've lived I've noticed abandoned grain mills. They used
to serve local growers, but now they stand alone and almost unnoticed.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net

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On 7/7/2006 at 8:13 PM Activism98201 wrote:

>But... Ken had written:
>
>"I tell people to use organic, no-till for gardening and farming and that
>the
>farmer does not have to buy anything from anybody."
>
>Feed and seed stores generally don't do barter, in which case they violate
>Ken's
>statement that one can get by without buying anything (for organic
>operations)
>:-(
>
>I'm wanting to know how people would manage self-sufficiency with green
>manures,
>whether harvest seed from such crops would/can be practical.
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
>TradingPostPaul
>
>
>Any feed & seed store. Or 
>http://cooperseeds.com/organics.php3?cat=Cover%20Crops
>
>paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
> 
>