Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>]

I just want to tell you Harvey that I am so grateful for all that you do and 
bring to the world.  You are years ahead of me and I am so thankful to have 
such a flexable clear model to learn from.  You have shortened my learning 
curve more then once:o)

Aliza
SomeKindaWonderfulFarm
Ashland, Oregon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Ussery" <boxwood@nelsoncable.com>
To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 7:42 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] WAPF Conference in November: Harvey to 
presentall-day track


> 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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