Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

My own take on it is recession, depression, worse depression and not
getting better. I expect gradual worsening of cost of living and more
desperation spreading through the middle class, rather than something that
triggers catastrophic collapse. Assuming New Madrid, Yellowstone, and San
Adreas keep quiet, and the politicians don't go completely bonkers. But
let's remember in the '30s Depression we didn't have hungry hordes raiding
homes and stores. They went on the road and rode the rails looking for
work. They showed up at back doors along the tracks asking for a sandwich,
and got it. But then again, half the population lived on farms and had
their own food. My aunts and uncles in Kansas  had no money as kids but
never missed a meal. Grandpa homesteaded near Two Buttes, CO in the '20s,
sold it and eventually moved near Hutchinson. They gardened, canned, and
made good use of the root cellar. But people in town suffered. 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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On 7/19/2006 at 11:06 AM art corbit wrote:

>Hi Diane,
>
>That is my point exactly. The kind of people you describe will be our
worst
>enemies. They have been deceived into believing the good times will last
>forever and they feel no need to do any more work than they must. Even a
>lot
>of people that know hard times are coming are putting off doing anything
to
>prepare for it. They think they will have time but they won't. If you
don't
>have a full year of food stashed back right now and a means of replacing
it
>that you alone control you are in a very dangerous position. Pure water
for
>drinking and cooking is also something we should be working on. Distilled
>water could very easily be the only answer. Should it come to a point
where
>millions starve to death their dead bodies would contaminate this earth to
>a
>point the surface water would be deadly. Even most drilled water wells
>would
>become contaminated beyond safe use.
>
>Ask yourself this question. How many people do you know right now that
>could
>survive without any outside help? I'm talking at this moment, not down the
>road a couple of years. Right now we should be working on our soil
building
>it up and putting together the things we need to tend it. If you don't
have
>land to live on that belongs to you then buy you an acre or so out of town
>and get to work on it. It doesn't matter how far the land is from town
>because if you ever need it to survive you won't be going into town
anyway.
>Now is the time to act, not 6 months from now.
>
>Art in Arkansas
>
>