Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

In the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, it 
talks about how the growers make more money than doctors and shows how 
they developed farms and plots everywhere just to survive the US 
embargo (especially on petroleum). You can check out more about the 
film at http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html As the price of oil 
goes up the reign of petro food goes down. The question is timing.

On October 22, Ken Hargesheimer also made an offer to send us a David 
Suzuki dvd of Cuban organic farming. I got it and it was great. And 
cheap. Thanks Ken

Marty

On Nov 20, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Dan Conine wrote:

> >  A big part of the American food myth is that food should be cheap. It
> > should not. Food should, in fact, get top billing on our list of 
> > spending
> > priorities. To buy cheap food in order to afford an expensive 
> > lawnmower
> > demonstrates a perverted value system.
> That is a good statement. When you also consider that money spent on
> local foods with local farmers recirculates in your community and comes
> back to you, then it isn't as expensive as it seems at first glance. 
> The
> 'green' revolution was actually a black revolution of Petroleum and 
> long
> distance centralization. Funny how the same people who fight so hard
> against communism work twice as hard to set up centralized industrial
> planning. The only difference being the profit motive going to
> executives instead of Politiks.
>
> Cheap food isn't cheap. You just don't pay for it at the grocery store.
> You pay for it at the doctor, the gas station, and with our sons and
> daughters.
> Living on the Land requires that people acknowledge that there is more
> to food than calories, and there is more to community than having a
> shopping mall 20 miles away.
>
> Like Paul said, First buy Local, then Organic. After that, yer on yer 
> own.
>
> Dan
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