Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Native Americans introduced the Southerners to corn, pumpkins, squash,
beans and sassafras, as well as many types of wild berries and game.
http://www.uwf.edu/tprewitt/sofood/past.htm

I strongly suspect those extension agents base their opinion on large
acreage of commercial varieties of standard supermarket fare, grown on
depleted land for decades or longer. Of course they can't survive without
chemical drenches. More likely they don't believe crops can be grown
organically anywhere. It's like small local operations  on fertile soil
don't even exist, or that's not important enough to bother mentioning. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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On 10/20/2006 at 12:51 PM Laura McKenzie wrote:

>One thought about growing food in Alabama.  Anthropologists probably
>know. I 
>don't.  Perhaps food wasn't grown here, only gathered.  Sometimes I start
>to 
>feel that is the only answer <grin>.  The point though is that we are,
>after 
>all, trying to produce some food where it wasn't meant to be produced. 
>Hence the need for tips and techniques.
>
>   Laura
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