Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I lived in your area when I was little in the late '40s. One would think
that the rural poor in the Appalachians would still carry on the self
sufficient traditions of their forebears. Many would still be living on the
same land. Perhaps it's the food stamps etc. that have weaned so many away
from growing what they can. How did they get by a hundred years ago, and
why not now? 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/12/2007 at 12:23 AM Liz wrote:

>At 12:12 AM 12/11/2007, you wrote:
>>But there are some businesses that are picking up the slack.  Azure
>Standard
>>delivers all over the west.  There prices are competative with my local
>>organic coop and the warehouse type store that stocks lots of organic
>>produce (local and national origin) and comercial foods.  For a $400
>minimum
>>they will make a drop with no shipping.
>
>This is good to know, but the people I'm talking about are in poor 
>urban neighborhoods, or isolated rural counties, often also poor--the 
>coalfields of western Virginia and West Virginia, for example. Their 
>food purchases are day-to-day needs--milk, butter, eggs, cheese, 
>lunch meat, cereal, canned soup, etc.. Buying staples in bulk is not 
>something you do when you don't have space to store extra and you 
>don't have luxuries like a freezer. And they are often dependent on 
>food stamps, so a purchase that required any of the very small amount 
>of cash that many of them have would be out of the question.
>
>Liz in SW VA
>http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
>
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