Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Odd, isn't it, people always imagine we'll be the "haves" and everybody
else the "have-nots".  Far more likely some of the others will have a great
deal more to fall back on and we'll be the ones doing without. 

In any case, community is a verb. It's something you do, something you
make, not the place you live. If you don't make a mutually dependent
community and be a part of it, then ... 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Gandhi
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On 7/18/2006 at 10:39 AM art corbit wrote:

>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
>