Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>]

My goodness, you all have a very dim view of our history.

Barbara
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From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] 1491 New Revelations of the Americas
BeforeColumbus


>
> Yes. Churchill said "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write
it".
> The thing is, what we know of agriculture, as a country, is cut down to
the
> last few decades, and only what's good for John Deere and Monsanto. This
> country is clueless about what worked for millions of indigenous peoples.
> And it will be our undoing. The past simply does not exist, except in
> racist cowboys and indians westerns. But the cavalry isn't coming to save
> us.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
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> On 3/12/2007 at 3:37 PM Gloria Baikauskas wrote:
>
> >I have seen more of this than is shown.  It talks about a huge city in
> >Oklahoma with large ranches that bred elk, deer, and buffalo instead of
> >the cattle we have that were brought by the Europeans.  I have also seen
a
> >bit on a city in Illinois somewhere where the flour was made of knotweed
> >seeds, and the meat again was deer,elk, etc.  Don't think buffalo were
> >listed in the Illinois bit.
> >
> >  History is cleaned up fairly often to make the 'right' folks look
> >better.  The Europeans were smelly cuz the didn't bathe except at birth,
> >marriage, and death.  They brought much disease with them...including
> >animals that carried disease not known here....and plant diseases with
the
> >plants.  It devastated the more civilized people in the Americas who were
> >in the beginning much better to them than the Europeans were to the
Native
> >peoples here.
> >
> >  I sometimes wonder if the diseases had not devastated the populations
in
> >the Americas who would have won.  Would we, who are of largely European
> >stock, be here now?  Perhaps not.
> >
> >  Gloria
> >
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