Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

And permaculture wasn't intended for maximizing sustainable food
production. As current trends continue, the need increases for localizing
healthy food and producing all we can from space available, wherever we
are. We don't have time to wait forty years for forest canopies to grow and
understories to develop to reach some idealized climax ecosystem. We do
have to stop topsoil loss and aquifer depletion with sustainable, intensive
growing and we have a great deal of information and sources to go with. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/8/2007 at 2:25 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>I have read the books.  The yield seems to be much lower than organic,
>no-till in permanents.  Do not miss understand me as I am in favor of it
>as it addresses the total picture.  Most people are not going to produce
>their own food. Therefore, those who do produce food must produce enough
>for the rest of the world.
>   
>  I am not the only one who believes that as I have read others.  A person
>in CAL is producing 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10 acre.
>   
>  Ken
>
>Mike E <mike.lists@mlxvi.org> wrote:
>  That's a pretty blunt statement Ken. 
>
>Why can't it?
>
>Mike
>
>Ken Hargesheimer wrote:     
>Permaculture cannot feed the world.  
>   
>  Ken Hargesheimer