Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>]

Gee, I'm glad you don't live near me in AR

Barbara
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "art corbit" <art_c@cox.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] commune way of living


> 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"
> <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> 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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