Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Ah yes, more readily doable projects. Like getting a productive garden
going right away on a shoestring? Considering what's going on in politics,
the economy & environment, what could be more useful to so many? As it
happens, that's what I'm doing right now. And without power equipment. Been
building soil in new beds off and on for the last three months. A 50 ft
greenhouse will go over the last six beds in February. Still have to get
garlic and sunchokes in other beds before a hard freeze. Walking onions and
comfrey is in now. We'll see. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/11/2006 at 5:46 PM Mark Nagel wrote:

>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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