Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Hi Laura,

I would also do my best to share all I could with others than needed it. I
to can teach others how to grow their own food. But there won't be enough
time to get set up to grow food if things break loose. If you do not have a
years food laid back you will be in big trouble. That is one reason I try so
hard to convince others to get started on it now while there is still time.

As for your place being small that does not mean you can't survive on it. I
was in Italy in 1962 ans that is the one thing that really impressed me
about that country. They would produce more food pound per pound on their
small city places than some of the others out in the country did. They would
put buckets all over the place with some kind of a plant in them. I even saw
these buckets on top of fense post and on the fromt steps of the house pluss
all over the yard. They mowed very little grass. Everything that would was
growing food. Most of the trees in their yards produced some kind of fruit
or nuts. Above all these people did everything by hand and they didn't waste
anything.

The example you set before others with your small place could very well save
several lives. I say go for it. We all need to learn and practice doing the
best we can with what we have.

Art in Arkansas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] commune way of living


> 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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