Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

Pretty tricky, but you did a good job.  Thanks. 

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: TradingPostPaul

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:35 AM

Subject: [Livingontheland] where we're headed with this

A few words about recent posts.

This list is not about partisan politics, and whatever our leanings there
are certain areas where we discuss common ground.

1. Folks can disagree about the reasons for global warming (or climate
change if  you prefer) or what to do about it, but our common concern is
sustainable food production under these changing conditions.

2. Some see economic collapse imminent, some believe anything on Fox News,
fine. But disruptions on some scale are coming and hardships are here for
millions now. There's evidence true inflation has been running at or above
15% annually. The worst is hidden from us.

3. Water problems are growing for cities and agriculture, and the cost of
getting more is going up.

4. Topsoil loss is an increasing problem for conventional agriculture and
getting worse. Our country's topsoil won't last for another 50 years of
conventional agriculture.

5. Peak Oil is acknowledged now in the mainstream, and the costs of
anything based on fossil fuels is on the long upward trend. Natural gas is
headed off the cliff in the foreseeable future. There are no *affordable*
substitutes.

We're not even thinking about foreign wars or natural disasters such as
Yellowstone, New Madrid, or the Canary Islands tsunami. Any one of them and
all bets are off.

The point is, regardless of the reasons or political fallout, these things
are converging all at once. On this there is general agreement. Our
children and theirs will live in a very different world from what we grew
up in. And families and communities who learn to deal with their food
supply sustainably for the long term, more or less independent of the
outside, are more secure than the rest. That's where we're headed with
this.

Pretty tricky trying to put these thoughts into words. But we do have a big
tent here where many differences are welcome on this basis.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net



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