Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Mike and Miranda, that reminds me of what my daughter in law said to my
partner. She was telling her you need to keep certain basics like flour on
hand, and the daughter in law asked, well what can you do with flour???

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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   “If economics is reconceived in the service of community, it will
begin with a concern for agriculture and specifically for the production of
food. This is because a healthy community will be a relatively
self-sufficient one. A community’s dependency on outsiders for its mere
survival weakens it. It is often unable to develop the policies it desires
for the sake of its own members, since its survival depends on terms
dictated by others. The most fundamental requirement for survival is food.
Hence, how and where food is grown is foundational to an economics for
community.”
   --Herman Daly and John Cobb
http://www.serve.com/ecobooks/comgood.htm

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On 12/2/2006 at 10:02 PM Miranda wrote:

>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
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>
>> 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.
>
>
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