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Re: [Livingontheland] The end of cheap food

From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The end of cheap food
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:30:27 -0600

I like to imagine. Wasn't it Heinberg who said we need 50 million small
farms here in this country? Maybe there's more good in imagining than most
of us realize.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/12/2008 at 10:36 AM Aliza wrote:

>But maybe it is really a return to cheap food:o) I mean if folks go back
>to
>gardening, bartering for stuff they dont produce etc it gets really really

>cheap KWIM? So perhaps this the step towards instead of a horror. At
>least
>it looks that way in my head.
>
>Imagine the world full of small gardens and small holdings.
>
>Aliza
>who almost has a new wonderful beautiful milk room. The wiring went in
>yesterday. It should be done enough to start using it by the end of the
>weekend.
>
>

[Livingontheland] The end of cheap food, Tradingpost, 03/12/2008
- Re: [Livingontheland] The end of cheap food, Aliza, 03/12/2008
  - Re: [Livingontheland] The end of cheap food, bruce smith, 03/12/2008
  - Re: [Livingontheland] The end of cheap food, TradingPostPaul, 03/12/2008
- Re: [Livingontheland] The end of cheap food, E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 03/12/2008
  - Re: [Livingontheland] The end of cheap food, bruce smith, 03/15/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Livingontheland] The End of cheap food, Dan Conine, 03/13/2008