Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I didn't make it clear enough, my concern is also making home growing more
worthwhile, better production with less labor and lower cost. In the near
term we need many times the local commercial growers that we have now,
simply because most people won't know how and won't believe they need to
actually work to live. In the long term it's believed far more of our
population will be forced to grow more of their own food for financial
reasons and health reasons. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/23/2007 at 10:08 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>Yeah, as you said:
>
> "I should mention again that far as I'm concerned this isn't about hobby
>gardening but best production for survival and quality of life for
families
>and communities." 
>
>Which means using all available tools, and getting as many people to try
>it as possible.  If computers make it less daunting, then that's a good
>thing.  I realize that your focus is commercial market gardening, but
>every little bit of home production helps.
>
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: TradingPostPaul 
>  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org 
>  Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:32 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Intensive Gardening
>
>
>
>  Excellent effort. Of all those it looks to me like
>  http://www.wys-systems.demon.co.uk/plotcrop/ might be most useful. It
>could
>  prompt the user to think about all aspects of production. Someone try it
>  and let us know if it accommodates intensive successions. I do suspect
>the
>  typical user just won't have the background to make good choices where
>  choices are called for. We should do much better though.
>
>  I should mention again that far as I'm concerned this isn't about hobby
>  gardening but best production for survival and quality of life for
>families
>  and communities. 
>
>  paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
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>  On 2/23/2007 at 7:52 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:
>
>  >Well, I've looked at the gardening software I can find:
>  >
>  >http://www.mindspring.com/~jmaier/garden/
>  >http://www.foodforeveryone.org/garden_master/
>  >http://www.plangarden.com/plangarden_features/index.php
>  >http://www.wys-systems.demon.co.uk/plotcrop/
>  >http://www.thevga.co.uk/index.cgi
>  >
>  >I don't see any built-in capability for any of the intensive gardening
>  >techniques.  I may try one or more of them, but I'm not encouraged at
>this
>  >point.  A couple are based on Square Foot Gardening, so may offer some
>  >advantages.
>  >
>  >I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has tried any of them.
>  >
>  >E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>  >www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>
>
>
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