Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I'm familiar with it, and the guy behind it, and I don't have a good
opinion of him at all. But the co-op model depending on volunteers and
donations is NOT a viable model financially for feeding the country.
Producing and selling food locally, direct to eaters, is financially viable
if the grower knows how to cut costs and market intelligently. We don't
need big organizations to grow and sell. We need growers, ten million more
growers selling locally. Not just within the state of Oklahoma, or within
any state, but in every town and village. My nearest farmers market is
seven miles north of us, but when gas hits $4 a gallon we're going really
local, like the side of the road a mile from here.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/29/2007 at 4:38 AM Kathy Moore wrote:

>Local foods are definitely the way to go.  The OK Food Cooperative is
>growing like wildfire and is operated with volunteers.
>Kathy in Oklahoma
>
>
>From: <activism98201@verizon.net>
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>To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
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>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] happenings to get fired up about growing
>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:31:54 -0500 (CDT)
>
>Unfortunately increased gasoline prices are likely going to result in the
>LOSS of farmland with respect to it producing food :-(
>
>Small farmers will shift over to ethanol/biofuel crops only to ultimately
>be
>bought up by the big agri-fuel businesses.  Result?  Loss of food crops
>(which would take years to reestablish in the wake of fuel crop
>production)
>and the loss of local control of "farmland" (now in the hands of absentee
>owners.
>
>We've got to stress the need to reject the consumption of food that's
>shipped from far away (which is heavily subsidized).  Only then will the
>value of local food achieve levels necessary to maintain farmland for food

>production rather than fuel production.
>
>Kill ALL existing subsidies, NOW!
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA
>
>
>---
>Paul, I wonder what happened? (regarding the NMSU extension agent).  I
>wonder if we could bottle it and pass it around?  Your comments make me
>wish
>I was back in Doña Ana.
>
>     The only thing that will save farmland here is $5 a gallon gasoline.
>Then urban blight will stop and people will have the sense to fix up some
>of
>the older and frankly prettier homes near Birmingham and stay away from
our
>rural area.
>
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