Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I'm with you on that. I don't have the information or expertise to make all
those judgments  either, needless  to say. My gut instinct is to distrust
the consume ethic. 

Cooking from the Garden by Rosalind Creasy is going to be hard going. But
well worth taking notes. If you haven't looked into it yet you have a treat
coming. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/9/2007 at 8:24 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>I have viewed the video and was perplexed.  I couldn't see the motivation
>for creating it.  It was well produced and dramatic, with many people
>presented as scientists and experts (equally as unknown to me as those in
>pro-climate-change movies).  The best I could come up with is the desire
>that we should continue consuming as much as possible - hardly a motive to
>trust.
>
>I see no way that we, the general public, can understand the science well
>enough to make informed decisions about global or national issues.  I'm a
>technologist (mechanical engineer), with a life-long interest in the
>environment, and I can't begin to understand the intricacies that are
>being presented.  Consequently, as I said (somewhere) earlier, I'll follow
>my Grandmother's advice: Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst. 
>Currently that means studying nutrition and intensive gardening.   
>
>BTW, if anyone has suggestions for study along those lines, I'd love to
>hear them.  I've just finished the following:
>
>Real Food by Nina Planck
>Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
>How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
>
>Next in line:
>
>Cooking from the Garden by Rosalind Creasy
>The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash
>Four Season Harvest by Elliot Coleman
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
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>  Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:59 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Climate Change
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