Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Please keep in mind, "dirty hippies" were not my words, and I (carefully)
included the words "the ones I knew" so as not to paint everybody as lazy
jerks. Actually, Miranda, I'd like to hear more about how that worked with
your market gardens supplying restaurants way back when. Esp any
innovations you folks came up with. Again, I'm here to learn as much as
anyone. Thanks.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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foster its renewal is our only hope.
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On 7/17/2006 at 5:58 PM miranda@tagoresmith.com wrote:

>Given that I was one of those "dirty hippies" involved in the commune
>movement, I just had to jump into this conversation.
>
>Please don't paint us with such a broad brush. Some of us worked hard and
>created good market gardens. At one point, one farm where I lived supplied
>most of the upscale restaurants in Stowe, Vermont, as well as a number of
>food coops in the state and even wholesaled truckloads of cool weather
>vegetables to points south.
>
>We also developed some innovative organic systems and tools.
>
>And yes, there were the slackers, but there were also the workers.
>
>Best,
>
>Miranda Smith
>
>
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