Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["art corbit" <art_c@cox.net>]

Laura,

Take another look around you. Getting away from the "community" is the
wisest thing a family could do. Those people we now call our friends and
neighbors could very easily turn on us and become our worst ennemies. What
would happen if you were the only one in a community that had food and
water? You and your family would probably be killed and your food and water
carried off by your friends and neighbors.

During what they call "The great depression" in the 1930's things got pretty
bad but if the same thing should happen now you can't even imagine what our
world would become. Most people don't believe this could happen again but
they are dead wrong. In fact it could happen a lot easier now and be many
times worse a lot quicker.

It is said that in the LA Basin in California there is only a 3 days supply
of most food items at any one time. The rest is on trucks headed in that
direction. A lot of the Northeast is no doubt in the same shape. What would
happen if those trucks stopped and the food supply ran out in these areas?
If your kids were hungry and you knew there was food down the street for the
taking would you sit and watch your kids starve to death? No you wouldn't
and I wouldn't either and most important your friends and neighbors won't
either.

While we are figuring ways to grow our food and things along this line we
must also be figuring ways to conseal what we have in ways that no one will
know we have it.  A consealed root cellar stocked full of food could very
easily mean being able to survive long enough to see the worst pass. I
wouldn't want to be forced to kill to keep what I had but that is exactly
what it would come down to if people knew you still had food.

People have no idea what we are all facing in the near future. Now is the
time to prepare for it, not after you can see it coming.

Art in Arkansas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
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Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] commune way of living


>     I think some of us are interested in the topic because we don't live
> near anyone else who shares our urgency and/or love of growing food.  The
> cracker barrel is no longer there to sit around and share experiences,
> hints, helps, ideas over.  It gets lonely out here by ourselves and the
> internet, as wonderful as it can sometimes be, doesn't provide the human
> contact.
>
>    At least that's my experience.  Lucky if you if aren't as isolated as I
> am! I'm a little tired of being the only "organic, greenie nut" for miles
> upon miles around : )
>
> Laura
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