Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Last I heard the GMO companies hadn't bothered with vegetable crops. The
big money is in huge field crops, grains, soy, corn, cotton, and so forth.
However ... we can't be completely sure we're not getting any GMOs when we
eat anything with high fructose corn extract or certain grains or corn.
Most soy is GMO or contaminated with GMO. 

As far as growing ALL your own food -- realistically, we don't even want to
try to eat *only* what we can grow ourselves at home, even with a lot of
food preserving for eating out of season. Networking locally is ideal where
some can specialize in one thing, some another. Some have animals, some
orchards, some vegetables, and so on. Tho not everything we need or want
can be produced locally. Some spices and condiments, tea and coffee and
others items aren't ever going to be produced in our own area. No doubt
their prices are headed up. But they're used in very small quantities and
lose little in storage and shipping. Tomatoes are a different story, which
is why we concentrate on marketing and trading all we can here. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/28/2008 at 9:40 AM yarrow@sfo.com wrote:

>AFAIK, certified organically grown food is not allowed to have any 
>GMOs. I assume GMOs have crept into just about everything else. (Or 
>move to Europe and read the fine print on labels -- they're required 
>to divulge GMO content.)
>
>
>At 9:24 AM -0600 1/28/08, Pumpkin Lady wrote:
>.... I blame food for a lot of my issues, but the only way to be
>>absolutely sure that food is the issue is to make sure I consume only
>>non-GMO food, and pretty much the only way to do that is to grow your
>>own and never eat out.
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