Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Ryan Albinger" <ryalbinger@earthlink.net>]

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> [Original Message]
> From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>


> 1. What approach to growing can decrease our dependence on fossil fuels
> and/or biomass fuels, and decrease pollution?

*** Grow organically, produce your own energy positive renewable liquid
fuel, complete your field operations in an fuel conscious manner

> 2. What can offer growers better income incentives to farm and affordable
> places to live and work for millions of unemployed or underemployed?

*** First question: Grow better quality.  Second question: Decrease
government welfare dependency.

> 3. What can produce enough affordable food for all and reverse the
crushing
> cost of degenerative diseases and health care?

*** Quality organic food grown on good minerally balanced soils.

> 4. What can reduce growers' vulnerability to a distribution system they
> have no control over?

*** Produce your own fuel like I am.

> 5. What can improve rather than deplete the soil for the next generation?

*** Maintain balanced soil nutrients

> 6. What can conserve rather than deplete freshwater or fossil aquifers for
> the future?

*** Freshwater quifers: irrigate responsibly if needed.  Fossil aquifers:
Grow and produce your own renewable fuel.

> 7. What can offer more community self sufficiency and individual security
> and freedom?

*** A community fed good food at reasonable prices is a content, healthy,
happy community.

> 8. What can leave more open land and forest for wild ecosystems to return?

*** Managed intenisve grazing

> 9. What can reverse the acidification of the oceans, depletion of fish
> stocks, nitrification of "dead zones", loss of critical coral reefs, and
> sequester more soil carbon? 

*** Managed organic farming.

>

>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net