Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

There are so many good substitutes for grain and grain-based products. I
eat very little bread, mostly to avoid refined flour, transfats, and the
other goodies, and never miss it. There's a hundred ways to use potatoes. I
wouldn't be surprised if it turns out refined flour and transfats are the
real culprit in obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc. instead
of red meat. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/18/2007 at 1:03 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>I just had an event that sharpened my interest in growing our own
>vegetables - Genetic tests showed a strong sensitivity to gluten.  Trust
>me; there's NOTHING that enhances your interest in fresh vegetables like
>learning that you can't eat bread any more.
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: TradingPostPaul 
>  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org 
>  Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:33 PM
>  Subject: [Livingontheland] crunch time
>
>
>
>  Just how realistic is it to expect sustainable growing to take over?
>
>  We can't really predict how all the environmental and economic changes
>will
>  play out, but we can expect the future of food to be very different from
>  what we've known for decades in this country. Some random thoughts on it
>  come to mind, but others may have a different take on it. My best guess
>  here.
>
>  Some will think the crops they grow just aren't suited to permanent
beds,
>  though they know they need to conserve whatever water and amendments
they
>  have. Well, they can switch crops or go under as costs rise. They think
>  they have to rely on commercial fertilizers because we just don't have
>  enough organic fertilizer to go around. But organic wastes are
>everywhere,
>  such as lawn clippings and leaves bagged up for the landfill,
restaurants
>  where half the food goes to waste, and the typical kitchen disposal
which
>  ends up the best fed mouth in the country. When fertilizer gets too
>  expensive we'll start seeing all this invisible organic waste. 
>
>  They think we can't expect the industrial mega-farms to just go organic
>or
>  work free of fossil fuel costs. When they become unprofitable in this
>  economy, they'll figure out the industrial monoculture farms need to be
>  sold off and broken up into thousands of small farms that can be farmed
>  sustainably with very different crops. They might ask, where would all
>the
>  corn and grains come from if we did that. Well, that would starve out
the
>  monstrous factory feedlots for starters, where most of the corn and
>grains
>  go to feed our meat addiction, and we'd all be better off for any number
>of
>  reasons. It would free up enormous amounts of freshwater and land for
>human
>  food growing. There's plenty of uncultivated land for free range beef
and
>  poultry that's far healthier and more sustainable. 
>
>
>  paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
>
>
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