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  • From: Unca Ray <UncaRay@allvantage.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants
  • Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:55:30 -0500


I know a scattered few who are talking about it, I
know a very few, including myself, who are walking
the talk and living on the land. I see the Local
Foods Movement and the growing interest in organic
foods as very hopeful.

But I don't see any sudden mass turnaround and
re-thinking of lifestyles absent some truly
traumatizing national disaster, we are playing out
the tragic end of the Industrial Age, and it is
Human Nature that we must drink that cup to the
very dregs.

UncaRay
smokytopia.com

TradingPostPaul wrote:
>
> Reactions to this part of it?
>
> By the same token, however, there is no farming being done in the United
> States of America -- not on a local, sustainable scale, that is, not to
> any degree worthy of official attention. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of the
> Census stopped counting farming as an occupation in 1986 -- the number of
> actual, self-employed, traditional farmers had become statistically
> insignificant. To be sure, there are some non-corporatized farmers still
> around, but they exist only because they have either a reliable source of
> non-farm income (as I had), or because they are willing to live in real
> poverty (the Farmies of the 1970s lived on the equivalent of a dollar
> fifty per day per person).
>
> But the bottom line is that our corporatized, industrialized,
> government-subsidized mega-scale methods of petro-food production have
> made small-scale farming virtually impossible. And that is the
> heartbreaking story of American agriculture in the twentieth century,
> whether you're talking about grandma and grandpa's forgotten old farm or
> whether you're talking about The Farm.
> ----------------------
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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