Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I'm going to stick my neck out and say seasonal is overrated. Seasonal is
good - eating what's produced when it's fresh picked and all - but we've
long ago learned to preserve certain foods for winter when fresh food in
simply unavailable.  Societies have traditionally used root cellars,
storing root crops in the ground or damp sand, salting or drying meats,
pickling, fermenting, and so on. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/5/2007 at 2:54 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>I keep reading that a component of local sustainability is to eat
>seasonally, and that most don't know what that means.  Well, I'm one of
>them.  Other than what I grow in my garden, which is the same few
>vegetables that they have in the Farmers' Markets, I don't know what's "in
>season".  Apparently, there is a seasonality to animals, too, but since
>I've never grown or studied animals, I know nothing.
>
>Are there regional guides to food seasons?  We can't do the right thing if
>we don't know what is right.
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>