Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I think eating seasonally is more in response to buying nectarines from the 
other side of the world in the dead of winter then to preserving food from 
the garden though there are some folks who only eat what they can grow at 
that time.  They must not live where the snow covers the ground 4 feet deep 
for 4 months.

Just my hit on it Paul

Aliza
the airy fairy one:o)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <emitch@att.net>; <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Eating Seasonally


> 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
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> 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
>
>
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