Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

1/10 of an acre - not at all unrealistic under favorable conditions, and
with experience and effort. We've talked about growing more in less space
before. I can't think of anything more urgent for families right now, or in
the future. Not everybody has a lot of room to garden. 

But I looked at the conference schedule and I'm stumped as to which speaker
that might have been, Pego. 


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. 
--Henry David Thoreau 
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On 10/27/2006 at 9:22 PM firekeeper@netscape.net wrote:

>Thanks Paul
> 
>I remember that article, believe it or not.  During that time I was
>obsessively reading MEN  and already dreaming about a homestead.  Now that
>I come down to it I have started learning how with experience and effort
>to start raising some of our own food.  I was very encouraged by some of
>my successes and by the recent Bioneers conference where one of the
>speakers had been talking about how one family of 5 was actually mostly
>living off 1/10th of an acre.  Apparently they ate about 80% of their
>total groceries from the garden and the rest they sold at a local farmers
>market to get the food that they were not able to raise themselves.
> 
>Yours, Pego
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