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  • From: Gloria Baikauskas <gcb49@flash.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] those $1,000 permaculture certificates...
  • Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:19:50 -0800 (PST)

I was thinking about us not being the Breadbasket of the World yesterday when I was driving along the highway near home and saw a tractor plowing a field.  The dust flying up into the air was incredible showing just how dry and worthless that soil was from misuse.  It is so sad.....and farmers just never seem to learn....or get it.  The crops in these parts have largely been a loss the last few years because of the drought.  Yet better farming practices would conserve water in the soil than what is happening now. 
 
People ask me all of the time why my trees grow....why grasshoppers don't devastate my place like the do others around here.  When I tell them the whys of the various questions their eyes tend to roll.....and I am sure they don't go home and change how they do things. 
 
Someday....with more luck than the chances of winning the lottery....good sense and practices will replace what is going on because it now profits the big agribusiness chemical and seed companies. 
 
When food becomes scarcer.....and more expensive...maybe.  I have to tell you that every time we go to the store prices are higher.  I just bought some cedar mulch at Walmart.  It had gone up about 50 cents over last year's mulch at the same store.  The sausage we started buying because it was cheaper than ground beef went from $2/lb. to $2.87/lb from one week to the next. 
 
My dh has been out of work for six months now.  It is getting dire that we grow even more of our food this year.  I wonder how many others are in the same boat who have no idea how to grow food at all.  Those will be the first and hardest hit.  Those who do not qualify for assistance like us <because we have no young children>, but who have no or little income.  The others won't notice it until it is too late I think. 
 
Gloria, Texas



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