Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

It's up to ordinary folks like us to make the most of what we've got to
cushion what's coming - and coming soon. I think food, shelter,
transportation, friends and family. I won't take this list off topic with
specifics but I might be able to respond to offlist messages. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/21/2007 at 6:07 PM Bobby G wrote:

>folks, looking around for information relevant to our
>project here in Wisconsin, i came across a bulletin
>for a conference last fall of farmer cooperatives,
>held in the midwest:
>
>http://uwcc.wisc.edu/farmercoops06/index.html
>
>i was rather disappointed to see that the conference
>focused on "biofuels" and their "opportunities"
>without even mentioning (not that i could find) the
>crucial sustainability questions about rebuilding
>soils and protecting water resources.
>
>the other fairly disappointing thing--and i'm seeing
>this in all the groups focused on "sustainability"
>that i've been attending--is the domination by
>academic people in these kinds of groups.
>
>so you have a farmers' coops meeting where most of the
>workshops and presentations aren't by farmers, but by
>department heads from various well-funded (by
>agri-business no doubt) universities.
>
>very disappointing...
>
>bobby g
>