Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Dean" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>]

Somebody else's $.02

"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school." - 
George Bernard Shaw


Dean

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From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 11:03 PM
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> And the reason is corporate agribusiness wants family farmers off the land 
> so they can keep up their scam and control the food supply and the price 
> of food. After all, they pay the ads in the farming publications and endow 
> departments in the colleges. Money talks. You CAN make a living farming, 
> but their farming advice will ruin you like millions of others. That 
> advice was "get big or get out". It was a threat.
>
> The way to survive is:  whatever they say, do the opposite.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 5/24/2008 at 12:27 AM Norma Sutton wrote:
>
> > Mitch I can answer part of that.  Traditional farmers do their best to
> > send
> > their children to school to give them a good education.  In school farming
> > is looked down on and in college they are told that they can't make a
> > living
> > at it.  I know that from personal experience.
> > Norma
> >
> > On 5/23/08, E. E. Mitchamore Jr <emitch@att.net> wrote:
> > >  But why do "traditional" farmers feel that they can no longer continue
> > > with that tradition?  What I read most often is that they move to the
> > cities
> > > "to escape the grinding poverty of subsistence farming".
> > >
> > > E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
> > > www.hillcountrynatives.biz
> >
> >
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> >
> > visit our stores at:
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> > http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=2738
> >
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