Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

First, nobody's going to sell all that produce to a SINGLE neighbor, but to
a number of people at some other venue. Second, it is being done, and I
know because I'm getting closer to it in just my second year in this
location. And in a poor growing climate besides. And I'm 64, no spring
chicken. Now I do have reservations about his claims - tho neither of us
has read the book yet - such as the fact that those results can't be
achieved in a lot of soils and climates, or by people with physical
limitations, or by the vast majority of overeducated fools who couldn't
find their butt with both hands in broad daylight. Further, the first two
or three years in such a project will be demanding physically and demanding
of your time and money - tho I have done most of this on a shoestring. You
don't rake in $50 an hour to start in ANY business. And you don't start
big, since there's a learning curve. Otherwise perfectly doable. 

The problem with finding fault with the guy is, people don't have a choice
but to make it work. Some reassure themselves that food and gas and
everything else aren't going to keep going up, aren't going to double in
two or three years, or they'll win the lottery. And they figure the
government will do something to save us. Read the foreign papers on the
Internet. See what they're keeping from us here in Never-Never Land. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/13/2008 at 3:21 PM Dan Conine wrote:

>>
>> Book Description
>> This book describes the philosophy and methods of a holistic approach to
>limited space gardening that produces so much food that, within three
>years, you will be able to produce 85% of the food needs for a family of
>four on less than a quarter-acre, plus earn over $10,000 in cash annually
>- and you will be able to do this in less time than an equivalent job
>would require, netting the equivalent of $50/hour for your labor.
>Not that it couldn't happen, but if everyone DID do what this purports 
>to teach (or even 1/10th of everyone did), then why would they be 
>spending the cash to pay their neighbor 10,000 annually?
>I'm always amazed at how great this sounds until it is actually put into 
>practice.
>
>$5/hour used to sound pretty good for agriculture. It's still the same 
>amount, they've just devalued the dollar by 1000% since "10 acres and a 
>mule".
>
>Dan C.
>
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