Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <boxwood@nelsoncable.com>]

Hi All,

Most of you know of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a national (indeed, 
now international) organization for education on food and health issues, 
critical of hyper-processed industrial foods, committed to 
nutrient-dense traditional foods. Ellen and I are local chapter 
leaders--we maintain an extensive list of local producers of foods, to 
help them and nutrition-conscious local eaters find each other.

WAPF will be holding its annual conference Friday Nov 9 through Sunday 
Nov 11. The theme for the conference will be "Radiant Health for 
Children and Their Parents," and there will be many sessions on child 
health, nutrition, and diseases; nutrition in schools; vaccination; 
autism; asthma, allergies, and ear infections; and much more. However, 
topics always range far afield, so there will be plenty on agricultural 
issues as well, from the right to farm to effective micro-organisms to 
soil building and more.

I will be offering an all-day track on Friday the 9th which I'm calling 
"The Integrated Homestead." I am more and more convinced that success as 
we try to become more food self-sufficient, starting in our backyards, 
depends not on a one-for-one search for (usually purchased) solutions, 
but an attempt to create integrated patterns in which the various 
elements (soil building, dealing with competitor insects, poultry and 
other livestock, manure management, season extension and winter 
growing,  etc.) come together in the same projects, supporting and 
enabling each other in synergistic ways that mimic natural ecologies.

You can learn more about the Weston A. Price Foundation at

   http://www.westonaprice.org

The page for the conference per se is

   http://www.westonaprice.org/conference/2007/index.html

However, that page does not have the information about the all-day 
tracks on Friday. For that schedule, go to

   http://www.westonaprice.org/conference/2007/schedule.html

It would be great to see some of you at the conference. If you do 
attend, let's plan ahead to meet.

~Harvey

--
Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our 
deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner 
sense of justice than we do.  ~Wendell Berry