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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Eliot Coleman
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:51:01 -0700


"The premise of this book is that you can make a good living on five acres
or less of intensive vegetable production. .. if five acres is all you can
afford, it is more than sufficient for an economically successful farm."
(Eliot Coleman in The New Organic Grower p.17)
"... the output of the average European farm is remarkably efficient and
diverse, obvious corollaries of intensive agriculture. Europe's small
farmers have traditionally produced the bulk of the food eaten in Europe
and have made a good living for themselves in the process. There is no
reason why regionally based, small-scale food production cannot be
successful again in the United States, especially since dwindling suplies
of fossil fuels are likely to drive up transportation costs ..." (p.21)


paul tradingpost@lobo.net






  • [Livingontheland] Eliot Coleman, TradingPostPaul, 01/12/2007

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