Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Dawn M. Ripley" <ripley@iglou.com>]

Thanks for the encouragement, Paul, but according to the list home at 
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland, Living on the 
Land is mostly about soil building:

> Intensive, organic soil building is basic to growing much more in less 
> space with better nutrition, more profitable growing through less bought 
> inputs, less need for water, fewer losses from pests and disease, and less 
> vulnerability to fossil fuel problems now or in the future. What ways this 
> can best be pursued in different soils and climates leaves a lot of room 
> for discussion. We deal with the widespread problems of loss of soil 
> minerals, humus, nutritional content of produce, and loss of topsoil 
> itself, as well as the cost-price squeeze faced by real organic growers, 
> the shrinking supply of affordable land for growing and irrigation water, 
> and the need to increase the supply of nutritious food while making 
> healthy food more affordable in general. Our generation cannot continue to 
> plunder the soil capital of future generations.


We've discussed things related to the homestead, of course, but I didn't 
think it was the list's primary purpose, hence the disclaimer.

I'm planning to burn the wood I split in my glass-enclosed, woodburning 
fireplace.

Dawn


At 09:36 PM 3/1/2007 -0700, you wrote:

> Not sure what the wood gets used for, but it doesn't look off topic to me
> ...
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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> On 3/1/2007 at 11:12 PM Dawn M. Ripley wrote:
>
> >Dear friends,
> >
> >I'm thinking about buying an electric DR woodsplitter.  While the
> >gas-powered splitters may well be more portable and more powerful, I can't
>
> >afford them.
> >
> >Anybody out there have any experience with them, for good or bad?  Or with
>
> >DR products in general?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Dawn
> >
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