Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I just sent the link on. Others may disagree of course, but to me the whole
lawn garden thing based on permaculture, so called, strikes me as useless
dabbling in something they treat as a trendy hobby. Sincere people read
those books but seldom realize they're just paying money for a philosophy
instead of learning the nuts and bolts of survival growing. I mean survival
growing is the broadest sense. Sustainably growing in a lawn for food is no
different from growing for market, if done efficiently. We're heading off a
cliff with fresh water, soil loss, fuel, and industrially farmed food. Any
number of informed sources warn us with irrefutable evidence we're using up
our resources, and we won't have to wait for our children's generation to
feel the crunch. It's almost upon us. Permaculture is an idealistic
philosophy that has little to do with sustainably feeding the world right
now. Feel good seminars are bogus. 

I won't read it (and certainly not Hemenway's book) so let us know your
impressions when you're finished. But I'll maintain that one person alone
can't turn a neighborhood into a community. Not any neighborhood I've heard
of. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/30/2007 at 5:56 PM linda wrote:

>Ah, yes, this I know about! H.C. Flores recently published a book called,
>"Food Not Lawns: How to turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood
>into a Community" with a forward by Toby Hemenway, another wonderful
>author.
>Heather (that is for the H.) lives right here in the same town as I.
>Getting
>people to turn their lawns into food production systems is a high
priority.
>I have her book, but haven't finished reading it. I have scanned it and
>thought it good enough to buy. If I remember I will have a comment on it
>when I am done.
>linda
>linda's organic gardens: http://photos.yahoo.com/womyn47
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>> Food Not Lawns is a loosely affiliated cluster of grassroots gardeners
in
>> and around the Willamette Valley, just West of the Oregon Cascades. We
>work
>> together toward an ecologically, socially, and perpetually thriving
>> bioregion, using theories and techniques derived from permaculture,
>kinship
>> gardening, ecological design, and biodynamics. We also develop and test
>our
>> own ideas, and offer a wide range of educational, organizational, and
>> hands-on services
>
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