Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I'll work on that bigger correlation.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/27/2008 at 7:59 AM TamesonOB wrote:

>I think they simply don't care Paul. Most of the reporters I know are 
>"professional" people and they have such harried lives that they can just 
>barely make it to the grocery store let alone a farmers market (unless 
>they're on assignment) and not knowing what a traditional yield is they
>are 
>probably unaware of what's impressive. Besides, agriculture stories like 
>this are soft stories - less prestige there.
>
>So we need to tell the media when something impressive like this  comes
>up. 
>We need to suggest to them that there might be some bigger correlation and

>then maybe the media might start to pay more attention.
>
>Tameson
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>> I continue to be surprised that stories about harvesting huge amounts of
>> produce from incredibly small plots get totally ignored.
>> Does no
>> one connect this solution with the problems of freshwater, topsoil loss,
>> fossil fuel and input prices, the shrinking of good agricultural land,
>and
>> low income of farm families?
>
>
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