Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

It's not just the media.  The manager of a local Farmer's Market just posted an email that she didn't know what "open pollinated" means.  How can that kind of situation exist?

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: TamesonOB

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:59 AM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the Dervaes family - No-till,Permanent Bed Farming

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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