Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

That leaves a couple questions, what actual conditions the Mexican farmer
works under and what the food miles and cost of transport will soon do to
the price of bananas. ... though I have a banana first thing every morning.
It's likely it only enriches the Dole owners and impoverishes landless
peasants. 

My other thought on it is the diversity of growing zones in this country
and in Mexico. Both countries have every extreme of climate and soil for
growing the widest variety of crops. 

And of course we can look at the big picture -  if we took advantage of
what's available locally already, we'd need relatively little of what's
not. And not worry about the bananas!

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/6/2007 at 6:42 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>Excellant thinking.  I had only thought of this in terms of fruits
>[bananas, etc] that we cannot grow.  I think we should not limit marketing
>locally to an exact number of miles.  If we could purchase organic bananas
>from a Mexican farmer banana cooperative, go for it, in my opinion. I have
>to buy Dole.  We ship them a food from this country that they cannot
>produce.
>   
>  Ken H