Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Actually I don't agree at all on that but don't wish to be argumentive. One
difficulty both have in common is the lack of enough growers, regardless of
their marketing outlets. I do have one "absolute" conviction, that if they
had better ways to make it more profitable we'd have more growers coming
online everywhere. More on that in reply to another post.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/16/2007 at 1:10 PM David Inglis wrote:

>Paul,
>I am sure we can agree that CSA's and Farmers markets are two important,
>growing and different tools of distributing the food we grow to the people
>that need it. 
>Within 30 miles of me there are  some 15 CSA's, several Farmers markets
and
>several retail outlets. Each of these options have their shortcomings but
>are all thriving never the less. They share some features and not others
>but
>they are all important to our community vitality. 
>As you know local agriculture is a fragile and evolving movement. I feel
it
>is important that the thinking done about it is based on experience and
not
>projections and is free of absolutes and limiting thinking.
>The important innovations in our area have been introduced by people who
>either 'didn't know it couldn't be done' or refuse to accept that things
>have to be done the way they have been. They were also surrounded by
people
>who said it could not be done which is of no help whatsoever and becomes a
>joke when they persist even in the face of evidence that in fact it can
and
>is being done.
>Each to their own.
>Dave
>Mahaiwe Harvest CSA
>Z5 
> 
>
>
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