Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>]

Art, no one in my community will ever starve as long as I live here because 
I can teach them to wildcraft and grow food in the worst of conditions.

My gr-gr-grandmother (who lived with me until I was 8) was considered by her 
husband's family as not up to snuff.  She wasn't white; they were.  During 
the depression she shared everything she had with them, feeding all of them 
from her farm.  When the economy could support business owners and doctors 
again,  they went back to considering her to be less of a person than they 
were but during the depression she was their main source of support and 
lucky they were that her traditions of hospitality, family and generosity 
were ingrained in her.  I think in the long run she came out ahead.

But I can agree with one thing you say.  Part of why I don't leave and buy 
myself a farm instead of hanging on to this place of no soil and little sun 
is that I am learning how to grow food in the most marginal of spaces under 
very difficult circumstances and in a nearly entirely sustainable way.  My 
experiences might just help a whole lot of people eventually.

Laura
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