Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Well, Jason, we all want to make the best use of this list, so whatever you
want to see discussed, bring it to our attention. As to what's on topic,
I'd appreciate your leaving that to the listowner. That's me. Understand,
most of us are more concerned with a variety of problems, not all the same
problems. And it's all tied in with living on the land. I'm not going to
criticize a random off topic comment thrown in at the end of a useful post.
We're just human beings.

Specifically, that "back to the land" fad of the '70s was a bust (in more
ways than one). For the most part they were spoiled, clueless city kids
allergic to manual labor - the ones I saw ("come the revolution we won't
need money"???). We stress that working the land, making the best use of it
and caring for it, is work. Yep, there's that four-letter word - WORK. I
happen to agree the family is the basic unit (I won't define family) and
community is necessary. But communes are nonsense, or they'd be working
just fine all over the place.

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 7/17/2006 at 10:47 AM jason jones wrote:

>Why is the response copied below releavent to our list purpose /
>discussions?  I have read through about 75 post or so in the last couple
>of days and I must say that there sure seems to be a whole lot of
>off-topic discussion making it through.  I beg, as someone with an
>ulimited amount of learning to do and very little time to do it in, that
>we stay on topic and not waste even a few seconds of anyone else's time
>with posts like those below.  Thanks for wasting a few precious seconds
>reading an off-topic post.
>
>  Jason--riding the heat wave in Iowa
>
>Dan Conine <dconine@dotnet.com> wrote:
>  From what I've read, the problem with hippie communes is the
hippies.....
>They need "squares" to get the work done between parties, and they need
>to grow something besides dope; though I think hemp wouldn't be a hard
>transition for them, and dope does make a lucrative cash crop for the
>CIA's little empire......;-)
>Liberal ideas work in Sweden because they have Swedes.....etc.
>
>Dan Conine
>Belgium, WI
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