Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Yeah, Ken, I've been spitting nails about so-called Voc-Ag for years. Show
animals? Interview the winners (those whose parents can afford such
animals) and invariably they talk about a career in some nice respectable
white-collar niche of agribusiness - but not actually farming. That's dirty
work, like for illiterate laborers. Even when I took it in high school
(1957) it wasn't about farming. That always puzzled me. Seems it went the
way of Home Economics classes. At least back then kids in Home Ec. were
taught how to cook, clean, sew, and shop. Only the girls, that is. 

What a waste. The new farmers wouldn't touch Voc-Ag with a ten-foot pole.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/29/2007 at 12:14 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>Gloria,
>   
>  A G R I C U L T U R E is a seven letter dirty word!  The statement is
>100% correct.  There is not going to be anyone to farm the land if it
>becomes available. I substituted in Vo-Ag last week.  Not one student
>wants to farm.  The ag teachers do not even talk about it. When I was
>there, they taught food production but now it is hunting, showing animals
>and welding.
>   
>  Ken Hargesheimer
>    The problem as I see it is going to be finding farmers to farm them
>properly.  Properly is the most important word in that sentence. 
>   
>  Gloria