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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: emitch@att.net, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] John Warner, etc.
  • Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:31:07 -0600


Well, I'm in the minority on Warner. It just really puts me off when
someone tries to sound scientific and botches it. No matter.

Anyway your squash vines growing up the sunflowers saved you staking them
;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/4/2007 at 6:20 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>One thing that I like about Warner is that he makes the connections
>between science and agricultural practice. Many would have us believe
>that they are antithetical (maybe because science is so often used to do
>harm) but, in fact, science is useful as a method to describe and explain
>what we observe, as well as the limits of what we can do. I had not seen
>his website before, either, and find it a useful presentation of the
>principles we are discussing.
>
>Something I've learned this season is that squash is not well-behaved in a
>small "intensive" garden. Visions of old Japanese horror
>movies........"The squash that ate my garden". The vines have crawled
>through the fence and started up the sunflower stalks 10' away (which are
>currently about 7' tall).
>
>I just received the first copy of "Edible Austin"
>http://www.edibleaustin.com/ . It's a bit fancy, but well done. Other
>cities have their own "Edible" magazines, and they can be useful for
>identifying resources and opportunities.
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz







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