Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Mark Nagel <activism98201@verizon.net>]

I believe, however, that the kind of knowledge presented by Phiri is 
invaluable to future generations.  Sure, we (we'll I'm over the hill) don't 
have the time to do this, but somewhere along the line someone's got to take 
the time.

But yes, we need to present more readliy doable  projects.  This establishes 
the base from which the more advanced practices (or perhaps regenerating 
larger areas) can take hold.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


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From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
Date: 2006/10/09 Mon AM 11:28:34 CDT
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Drought Farming Example


To add to my cryptic response - my own focus for a lot of compelling
reasons is the urgent spread of knowledge about growing a lot more
healthful food on a lot less land, and the storing and using of it in local
communities. This has been well researched and demonstrated, and none of it
is my own invention. I'm just a messenger and we're all learning. My
concern is better food for more of society, and IMHO this is not well
served for ordinary working families by endless academic jargon and
expensive seminars. My opinion. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. 
--Henry David Thoreau 
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On 10/9/2006 at 10:06 AM TradingPostPaul wrote:

>We caught Brad's talk about the man when we stopped by Plants of the
>Southwest nursery a while back. Unfortunately, we don't have 30 years to
>develop a system like Mr. Phiri. What we need in this country is the wide
>spread of productive, sustainable food growing practices, and we need that
>right now. IMHO the best way to conserve water is to develop
>moisture-retentive soil through composting and cover crops. All those
ideas
>and philosophies they put under the permaculture label are nice for those
>with plenty of time and money. I have neither. Nor does our society. 
>
>paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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