Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

You said 
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.

Couldn't agree more, Harvey. We have to combine best practices wherever we
are, whatever we're doing. Any less is too unrewarding. 

Can't possibly go to VA of course, but would if I could. Will there be
transcripts or videos of any of it, esp your Integrated Homestead
presentation? We have a friend at our local growers market finding it hard
to make ends meet buying feed for his chickens no matter how many dozen
eggs he sells. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/25/2007 at 10:42 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>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
>
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