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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: sue@oberlebotanical.com, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] local food security
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:08:00 -0600


Another note of explanation. We do want to encourage more grow your own
and community self reliance. However, we do not want to push people to buy
into doom and gloom before they can take steps in that direction. If folks
are growing and learning, why throw roadblocks in their way? The object is
simply to encourage those steps, not make people believe a certain way. The
whole country is a safer place when more communities rely less on the
distribution infrastructure and keep the income circulating locally. Yes?

That said, regardless of how bad things get or don't get, there are already
millions in this country who desperately need to cut their food bills
and/or supplement their income - if any. We're personally near the
so-called poverty line on fixed income and not in perfect health, so we're
more aware of the have-nots. So we're not concerned much with hobby gardens
but with food gardens, old fashioned kitchen gardens, small market gardens
etc. And for many it means gardening on a shoestring. The methods we
promote are suited to it.

BTW Sue, http://www.oberlebotanical.com looks like you keep busy ;-) Do
you find that gardeners are partial to heirloom starts or hybrids? I'm
asking for a reason ...

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/26/2007 at 3:48 AM Sue Oberle wrote:

>So alarmist.
>Sue Oberle
>*OBERLE BOTANICAL*
>Fort Collins, Colorado
>970.581.5672
>sue at oberlebotanical dot com
>http://www.oberlebotanical.com
>
>
>Douglas Willhite wrote:
>>
>> /Opinion from the blog: Survival Acres:
>> /http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=688
>>
>> *Localized Food Security/:/*
>>
>> Food security isn't something that most people have given a lot of
>> thought to. But perhaps you should, because immediately upon the heels
>> of any natural disaster, peak oil, drought or any number of other
>> factors such as pests, pandemic or natural disaster, the world's food
>> supply can be severely threatened, even to the point of causing a
>> nations collapse.
>>
>> The world food stocks are in a global decline due to drought, disease,
>> climate change, soil loss, acidification, peak oil, bioethanol
>> production and pollution. These factors are worsening each year,
>> reducing our global food security to alarming levels.
>>
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