Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Well, let's see. Today we're two or three generations removed from our
forebears who mostly grew their own food. And we're brainwashed by the
commercialization of all things gardening. Which includes all the latest
and greatest hybrids, placed strategically in the front of the glitzy seed
catalogs. There's a lot of money and marketing behind hybrids. Their profit
margin is much higher on the latest hybrids, less on open pollinated
varieties. 

No wonder people don't want to bother with growing food. By the time they
buy all the gadgets and additives pushed in the garden centers it's too
expensive to be worth it. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/27/2008 at 9:37 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>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
>