Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

"What has to be undertaken is a thorough, complete change in the whole way
of life in America/the industrial world such that people can sustain
themselves through their own work applied to some patch of soil somewhere."

Bingo.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/2/2007 at 6:43 PM Bobby G wrote:

>--- livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
>(paraphrasing the storyline) "My God(ess), we do have
>to get food to the people." That has to be part of the
>meaning of sustainability.  But a Farm Bill "reform"
>which merely puts more food in the food pantries is
>not much of a step toward resolving the impending
>sustainability crisis.  
>
>I've run a food pantry, in Milwaukee, and I'll say
>this: Life in food pantry lines is not much of a life.
> What has to be undertaken is a thorough, complete
>change in the whole way of life in America/the
>industrial world such that people can sustain
>themselves through their own work applied to some
>patch of soil somewhere. 
> 
>No, I don't see such sweeping change in the pending
>Farm Bill; it doesn't move us toward having 50,000,000
>farmers as Rich Heinberg suggests we need. 
> 
>b.g. 
>
>