Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

FYI we've been seeing dire economic reports from foreign news sites 24/7,
but not flooding this list with them. Easy to wander off topic. What we are
focusing on is learning to cope with whatever comes in the way of land
stewardship, hard times, and putting food on the table.  My own approach
isn't about "weathering the storm" but adapting to permanent decline in
corporate groceries, health care, and work. Growing our own means less
vulnerable to food inflation and less need for ripoff medicine. Growing for
market means more buying local, less fossil fuel burning, and more income
independence from the system. Count me in. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/15/2007 at 11:18 PM Bobby G wrote:

>--- livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
>> Prices for key foods are rising sharply
>> By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
>> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/18902.html
>>     * Posted on Tue, August 14, 2007
>
>Hey, folks, here's a long-term corn prices chart to
>help put things in perspective:
>
>http://www.mrci.com/pdf/c.pdf
>
>any list members around in the fall of 1974 as an
>adult will recall the total freaking-out in the farm
>community when corn was hitting something like $4.00 a
>bushel on commodities markets.  the shape of the
>"spike" is indeed something to see, even by today's
>standards.
>
>this was all in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, the
>Arab Oil Embargo, the first oil-price spikes, the
>onset of "gas lines" (that's waiting for hours to get
>gasoline which may, or may not, be available by the
>time you get your turn at the pump, for you
>youngsters), and all that craziness that was the year
>1974...
>
>if you did a constant-dollar calculation on corn
>prices, corn would today need to be in the
>$9.50/bushel-$10.00 range to warrant the same amount
>of freaking out.
>
>all that said, there is most definitely some sort of
>slow-motion trainwreck going on in the financial
>markets of all sorts as we speak.  
>
>there is some serious derangement going on in the
>global economy, and i tend to believe that this time,
>it's for real.  it's not a "correction" as they
>say--it's "the Big One" we've all been expecting for
>quite some time, all of us denizens of the alternative
>lists, us readers of the alternative media available
>on the interweb.  how long it takes to unfold is
>beyond my powers of prediction.
>
>i hope all are hunkered down and prepared to weather
>the oncoming "storm" which promises to be a real
>doozy.
>
>bobby g
>Central Wisconsin
>