Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Don't think it'll keep happening. Development depends on a stable economic
atmosphere. That's in a deep slide already and it's a long way down. You're
not getting a true picture of the economy on network news. I could send a
hundred links showing what world news is reporting on the U.S. economy.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/28/2007 at 2:25 PM su do wrote:

>I have seen many farms being sold to developers. If
>this keeps happening, we won't have the agriculture.
>More ppl, more houses, no food. <shaking head>
>--- TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> 
>> I posted that to make this comment.
>> 
>> But a lot of people can make a good living on two to
>> five acres, depending
>> on where they are, what they're growing, and their
>> growing methods and
>> marketing. For decades now, family farms have been
>> going broke on the
>> advice to get big or get out, going in debt for more
>> land, bigger
>> machinery, paying more and more for fertilizers,
>> herbicides, pesticides,
>> and labor, and in the end having to sell wholesale
>> to the corporate
>> middlemen. Keep on the same way, expect the same
>> results. 
>> 
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net