Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Miranda <mirandaedel@charter.net>]

My grandmother recently told me the same thing. She lived in rural Montana during the depression. They were already self-sufficient, so it did not effect them. She does worry about my generation, however, because so many (in their 20s and 30s) know relatively little about growing or putting up food.  As a matter of fact, I know many people who don't know how to cook without a box. :(

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Miranda

http://simplereduce.blogspot.com

Hi All,

This was true in many cases...

I worked with an older gentleman who grew up on a farm

in the Canadian Maritimes.  He mentioned that someone

had asked him what it was like growing up during "The

Depression".  He was unaware that there had been a

"Depression" during those years, because nothing had

changed for his family.  They had candles and oil

lamps, and raised all their own food, hunted and

fished and foraged.

Mike

--- TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:

As I like to remind us, in the Depression of the

30's farm families fared

better with food than their city cousins, and half

the population was still

rural then.