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  • Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:45:48 -0400

Gwen
I'm originally from up your way and can attest to the floods (lived thru a couple)that the Ohio river has visited on the area.
My mother and sister live on Pipe Creek and have been flooded twice so they had the land built up 3 ft. or so.
I have pictures of my sister Roni in boots sailing a toy boat across the kitchen floor.
Kudos to you for trekking your kids back down there and making them help fix a car they are priviledged to even have.
Too many children these days have no clue what hard work is or how to work for anything.

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Price of Ferilizer/fuel (anna Lorrai)
2. Re: we'll have to confront the farm-labor crisis (Dean)
3. Re: Wasted fertilizer (anna Lorrai)
4. Re: we'll have to confront the farm-labor crisis
(Ken Hargesheimer)
5. Re: we'll have to confront the farm-labor crisis (Liz)
6. Feeding frenzy (Tradingpost)
7. Re: we'll have to confront the farm-labor (elderberryjam)
8. Re: we'll have to confront the farm-labor crisis (BirdWalk)
9. Re: Price of Ferilizer/fuel (mdnagel@verizon.net)
10. Re: Feeding frenzy (Liz)
11. Re: Wasted fertilizer (Liz)
12. Re: we'll have to confront the farm-labor crisis
(Ken Hargesheimer)
13. Re: Wasted fertilizer (Ken Hargesheimer)
14. Re: Wasted fertilizer (BirdWalk)
15. Re: Wasted fertilizer (anna Lorrai)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 09:56:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Price of Ferilizer/fuel
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
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I'm not going to argue with you fellows. I just think you're not getting my point. Biofuel from algae doesn't take away from our food source and it can be grown on waste water. it's efficient in my opinion. So if that's your reality, that's fine, but I would like to see a new reality. Anna

Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote: It is not "disenchanted" but reality. Biofuels/agrifuels, in my opinion, will never compete with oil because we must use the land and water for food; not to power vehicles.

There is enough oil in the earth and it can be taken without damaging the earth if the corporations were willing but they do not care. Look what they have done to the jungle and Indians in Ecuador.

Ken

anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com> wrote:
Most of the algae start ups are privately owned. Sorry to hear that you are so disenchanted with the whole concept. Lot's of things take years to get rolling. Anna _______________________________________________
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:30:31 -0600
From: "Dean" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] we'll have to confront the farm-labor
crisis
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We bought some seeds from Baker this past year and I cannot help but contrast what he is doing as a 27 year old who has wanted to be a seedsman and work with heirloom seeds all his life with a close relative who is a bit older but has a truss plant that builds trusses from trees which took quite some time to grow and often the buildings they go on have the life expectancy of long term capital gains before they are torn down. A bit of a difference in posterity. Dean


----- Original Message ----- From: Liz
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Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] we'll have to confront the farm-labor crisis


At 02:30 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:


Why do US citizens not want to do this kind of work? The work is tedious and the pay is low, but it's honest labor for a good cause.


Well--as Dean pointed out, you can't feed your family on those wages.

But I think there's another answer too. There has been such an emphasis on getting a college degree that pure and simple labor is not seen as dignified any more. This is another example of unintended outcomes. The original motivation was to increase the overall level of education, and to encourage people who would benefit from it but whose families might not have a history of higher education. But we Americans just go overboard with everything. If a college education was good, then everybody ought to have one, right? Never mind that some people really can't do college level work, or that many people would far rather learn a trade than sit in a classroom. Working with your hands became something you did only if you couldn't do any better, and that's a real shame.

Perhaps we have an opportunity now to show that raising food is as essential and dignified a job as any other. I certainly have good memories of the days my family spent in the fields and orchards when I was young. It also taught me that I could have things my family couldn't buy for me if I earned the money for them. I badly wanted a camera, but there was no way they could buy that for an eight-year-old. So I picked those prunes off the ground (yes, that is how "prunes" are picked), and made enough money to buy one myself. It was a lesson I never forgot, and probably contributed to the fact that I've been self-employed most of my life.

Liz in SW VA
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:54:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wasted fertilizer
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Shredded junk mail works too. Anna

Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote: At 05:33 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:

I have been using humanure for the last 8 years with good success,
but I know what
went into it. I wouldn't want to use other people's sewage, no
way! Incidentally, I
use dried leaves instead of sawdust because we have plenty of dried
leaves from
the wooded part of our land. The advantage of dried leaves is that
the crumbly
structure of the leaves lets in more air than would be the case with
sawdust.
After the initial composting, I mix in some clay.

Thanks for this info. I've been holding off on a sawdust toilet
because I couldn't find a nearby source of free or low-cost sawdust.
We have a large manufactured-wood industry in the local area, and the
sawmills sell their sawdust and wood chips by the truckload. But I do
have a large section of hardwoods, and had wondered whether leaf mold
might work as well as sawdust.



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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] we'll have to confront the farm-labor
crisis
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Last week I completed 13 years as a substitute teacher. I can't live on the pay but I love to do it.

High schools promote going to college. Everything else is looked down on. Here in Lubbock TX there is a need for welders [after the one year course in the community college, by the third year they are making $40,000 per year with their own truck].

There is an eleven letter dirty word in the English language:
A G R I C U L T U R E. The future in farming and selling locally grown food, locally, is unlimited. Out of 125 students taking Vo-Ag this past year only two are interested in production agriculture.

Now that school is out, I will be preparing and submitting a document to the TOGFA about establishing The Future Organic Farmers of America in the high schools.

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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:36:45 -0400
From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] we'll have to confront the farm-labor
crisis
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
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At 08:03 AM 6/1/2008, you wrote:
My wife is payroll officer at a company that repairs motors and
transformers. Several employees will not get married [same woman
and several children and together for many years] and will not work
for more than 30? hours per week. Why?

They would no longer have welfare checks, etc.


Why doesn't the company tell them they have to work 40 hours? It
sounds to me as though the company is complicit in this. Or are they
just not getting paid enough even if they did work 40 hours? They are
probably getting medical help too, and it's really hard to turn your
back on that when you have kids. I'm not defending abuse of the
system, but I know many people who hate being on assistance, but are
afraid that if they turned their backs on the food stamps and
medicare and rent assistance, and some calamity hit them (something
that might not seem like a calamity to people with money, like a
major car repair), they'd just have to apply for help again, and
they'd be that much farther behind.

Like everything else that has gone haywire with today's culture, the
welfare system that was meant to help people has also contributed to
dependency and irresponsibility. It doesn't work to decry just one
aspect of it, as though that existed in isolation from all the rest.
The whole system is screwed.

On the other hand, I suggested once to a person who was squawking
about the "shiftless people on welfare." that he should get together
with his wealthy friends and each family "adopt" one family from the
housing project. Help the parents find jobs, make sure the kids
understood their school assignments and did their homework, help the
older kids with decisions about work and/or further education--in
other words, do the things that would help get these folk off
welfare. He looked at me like I was nuts, and said that wasn't "his
problem." He didn't want government to help, but he didn't want to
put himself out to help either. He just wanted those dirty,
dark-skinned, criminal, baby-making people to go away. If not for
that kind of attitude, we wouldn't need government assistance. And
there are many people who are willing to help, but who don't know how
to go about it, or who assume that since government is taking care of
it that they don't need to. That's why I said the whole system is messed up.

I think we've gotten far enough away from the purpose of the list
that I'm not going to comment any further on this topic. We all have
different opinions, and I don't claim that mine is any better than
anyone else's.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com



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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:47:52 -0600
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Feeding frenzy
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
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For some time we've been warning that industral agriculture is headed for trouble, and we can take steps to protect ourselves locally. Now it's approaching critical. First excerpts, then whole article from the UK. Eight more pages at that link.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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... in the more than 3? decades he has been farming, he has never seen anything quite like this. The prices of wheat, corn, soybeans and rice more than doubled in value in the span of several months, sowing equal measures of confusion and fear in the American heartland.in the more than 3? decades he has been farming, he has never seen anything quite like this. The prices of wheat, corn, soybeans and rice more than doubled in value in the span of several months, sowing equal measures of confusion and fear in the American heartland. ... At the same time, the costs of fertilizer, herbicides and fuel - all crucial to agriculture - have skyrocketed to record heights: Mr. Giessel's expenses alone jumped half a million dollars in the past year, twice what they normally are.

One big culprit in the global food crisis has been overlooked: The money. Pension and index funds used a loophole to plow hundreds of billions of dollars into commodities markets. .. These funds have plowed tens of billions of dollars into agricultural commodities as a way to diversify their assets and improve returns for their investors. .. The amount of fund money invested in commodity indexes has climbed from just $13-billion (U.S.) in 2003 to a staggering $260-billion in March, 2008, according to calculations based on regulatory filings.

Michael Masters, a veteran U.S. hedge fund manager, warned a Senate hearing this month that this number could easily quadruple to $1-trillion ... "If immediate action is not taken, food and energy prices will rise higher still," he told the hearing. "This could have catastrophic economic effects on millions of already stressed U.S. consumers. It literally could mean starvation for millions of the world's poor."
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Feeding frenzy
May 31, 2008
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080531.RCOVER31/TPStory/TPBusiness/America/

One big culprit in the global food crisis has been overlooked: The money. Pension and index funds used a loophole to plow hundreds of billions of dollars into commodities markets

LARNED, KAN. -- Tom Giessel rubs the heel of his palm against his forehead, exhales a moment, and then begins again, trying to make sense of how the global food market has suddenly descended into chaos.

He is seated on a couch in his modest white farmhouse, surrounded by acres of wheat that in a few days will begin to flower, blanketing this central Kansas town with millions of tiny green beards. Beside him, a sheaf of dried wheat spills out of a vase, while across the room, a stylized crucifix looms above the entrance to the kitchen, a solitary stem writhing on the cross.

For three generations, grain has been his family's lifeblood, a source of sustenance and pride, reward and hardship.

Mr. Giessel, 55, lived through the Russian Wheat Deal in the 1970s, when a sudden rise in exports to the Soviet Union sparked a boom in prices. He has endured credit crises, political embargoes, and the vicissitudes of weather and drought.

Yet in the more than 3? decades he has been farming, he has never seen anything quite like this. The prices of wheat, corn, soybeans and rice more than doubled in value in the span of several months, sowing equal measures of confusion and fear in the American heartland. Commodities markets, where these prices take their cue, have become so unpredictable that farmers now liken them to blackjack tables in Las Vegas.

At the same time, the costs of fertilizer, herbicides and fuel - all crucial to agriculture - have skyrocketed to record heights: Mr. Giessel's expenses alone jumped half a million dollars in the past year, twice what they normally are.

"It used to be that I could figure on things from year to year," shrugs Mr. Giessel, a stout man with dark eyes, thick forearms and a weathered countenance. "But now it's like driving down the road with no headlights. You can look out the window and see the white lines, but you don't know what the hell you're going to hit. This is the most risk I've been exposed to since I started farming."

The problems here go well beyond the Kansas border. The record escalation of food prices has played havoc with every link in the food chain, from grain merchants to futures markets, from publicly traded food companies to consumers.

Producers such as Mr. Giessel now find themselves on the front line of a mushrooming global crisis, one that has sparked violent protests in some of the world's poorest countries, prompting aid agencies to warn of a pending humanitarian catastrophe.

In the search for answers, pundits have attempted to pin the blame on the usual suspects: rising demand from China and India, bad crop conditions and booming ethanol production.

Yet one major culprit behind these gyrating markets and unprecedented price spikes has been largely overlooked: the deep-pocketed pension and index funds upon which most Canadians and Americans depend for their retirements.

These funds have plowed tens of billions of dollars into agricultural commodities as a way to diversify their assets and improve returns for their investors.

The amount of fund money invested in commodity indexes has climbed from just $13-billion (U.S.) in 2003 to a staggering $260-billion in March, 2008, according to calculations based on regulatory filings.

Michael Masters, a veteran U.S. hedge fund manager, warned a Senate hearing this month that this number could easily quadruple to $1-trillion, if pension funds allocate a greater portion of their portfolio to commodities, as some consultants suggest they are poised to do. Because agricultural markets are small - relative to stock markets - the amount of cash pouring in gives these funds substantial clout. Mr. Masters estimated that that these big institutional investors control enough wheat futures to supply the needs of American consumers for the next two years, and blamed the "demand shock" from these recent entrants to the commodities markets as arguably the primary factor behind the sudden take-off in food prices.

"If immediate action is not taken, food and energy prices will rise higher still," he told the hearing. "This could have catastrophic economic effects on millions of already stressed U.S. consumers. It literally could mean starvation for millions of the world's poor."

Continued on Page 2?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080531.RCOVER31/TPStory/TPBusiness/America/?pageRequested=2
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 16:03:23 -0400
From: "elderberryjam" <elderberryjam@zippytech.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] we'll have to confront the farm-labor
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"At first glance, New York would seem a particularly ripe state for a
midsized farm renaissance. It boasts a bustling metropolis -- the nation's
largest -- with a strong and growing locavore scene."

For some reason, this thread makes me think of the Drover's Trail, the old
trail from the west, to NY where animals were driven for food before the
RR's were put in. Yesterday we spent several hours beside it or on it, at
the mouth where Pipe Creek runs into the Ohio, at Dilles Bottom, OH. That is
where the Plymouth Reliant that belonged to my grandfather - a car that has
been resurrected several times for my children - was ditched when its fuel
line broke the night before. My kids got a ride home and left it there, for
me to take care of later.

My husband and I took them right back down, and made them help fix the fuel
line to get it home. As we were standing around, "helping," I explained to
them about how this used to be where the animals crossed the river ages ago.
The water was shallow at the bend at Dilles Bottom, before they put in the
locks way upriver. Now the old Drovers Trail is a county road that follows
Pipe Creek up to Key Ridge. We walked over to the ledge where the bank
dropped away below, and a mother duck and 5 ducklings were swimming
peacefully up-creek. The water was muddy from recent storms. This was also
one of the 2 creeks involved in the "Flood of Tears," in Shadyside, OH one
June the 1980's; a 100 year flood that dropped several inches of rain in a
short period of time on the ridges, creating a wall of water coming down
Pipe and Weegee Creeks. One person told me he had just built a new garage,
and it would have stood the flood just fine, if his sister's house hadn't
run into it. One of my grandfathers had told me years before he died of such
a flood. He was county commissioner, and he was angry that nobody was going
along with him in not permitting people to build along those two creeks. He
told me lives were going to be lost. They were, but he wasn't still alive to
witness it.

The animals first traveled along National Road/Route 40, but as it became
more populated, the uppity folks insisted that the animals be driven
eastward on a route further south. Hence the existance of the Drovers Trail.
Someone keeps a nice little boer goat farm near the mouth, with a blade
sharpening business, today.

And up in Key where the trail comes out onto the ridge, the only local
farmer who openly hired migrant labor has a big farm. Many people complained
about his bringing these kinds of people in, and it was a topic of
discussion for several years.

Historically, it seems to all tie together. The same sorts of contraversies
repeat themselves in different ways.

Gwen



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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:28:33 -0500
From: "BirdWalk" <birdwalk@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] we'll have to confront the farm-labor
crisis
To: "'Healthy soil and sustainable growing'"
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Because 30 hours is part time - thus no benefit package the company saves
money with more 'part' timers


Why doesn't the company tell them they have to work 40 hours? It
sounds to me as though the company is complicit in this



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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:01:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: <mdnagel@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Price of Ferilizer/fuel
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
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The devil is in the details.

That waste water comes from where? And how far does it have to be pumped? (NOTE: 10% of all of California's energy is consumed pumping water; this isn't a small issue.) More infrastructure, means more long-term maintenance.

What might be displaced by such facilities? Keep in mind that nothing truly is "wasteland:" everything developed to a certain state as a result of balance; what affects would any large-scale change on such "wasteland" occur?

There is, and never will be, a concentrated energy source like fossil fuels (unless you want to hang around for a few million years). Algae-based fuels or any other non-mineral fuels, and even a combination of all, will not be able to match existing and future demands. And keep in mind that the workhorse, fossil fuels, will continue in decline, which leaves us facing an inevitable and ever-increasing energy gap.

ALL energy sources were in some way, most in a large way, the product of solar gain. One cannot speed up this process, be it mineral fuels or otherwise, without it costing energy in the process: think tar sands (speaking of which, they didn't think that their operations would have any significant impact on the lands up there in Canada; well, they were clearly wrong).

Algae would only perpetuate the faulty transportation-based/centralize food system that we now have. Sure, one could advocate that such energy sources be produced and used locally, but do you really think that that would happen? Not as long as the current "free market" system is operating (and is able to subsidize the externalized costs of scaling up such energy sources).


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


From: anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>

I'm not going to argue with you fellows. I just think you're not getting my point. Biofuel from algae doesn't take away from our food source and it can be grown on waste water. it's efficient in my opinion. So if that's your reality, that's fine, but I would like to see a new reality. Anna


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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:18:05 -0400
From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Feeding frenzy
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
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At 03:47 PM 6/1/2008, you wrote:

For some time we've been warning that industral agriculture is
headed for trouble, and we can take steps to protect ourselves
locally. Now it's approaching critical. First excerpts, then whole
article from the UK. Eight more pages at that link.

Hm. My housemate has a federal pension. Wonder what that's invested
in. Wonder if they would even tell him if he asked.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com



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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:19:46 -0400
From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wasted fertilizer
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
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At 01:54 PM 6/1/2008, you wrote:
Shredded junk mail works too. Anna

I've thought about that too, but I've been so aggressive in getting
off people's mailing lists that I don't actually get a huge amount of
it any more. But it would still be a useful addition to the other media.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 04:51:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] we'll have to confront the farm-labor
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They get company benefits. Are considered "skill" labor.
Ken

BirdWalk <birdwalk@frontiernet.net> wrote:
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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 04:54:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wasted fertilizer
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To stop receiving junk mail, open every one. Those containing self-addressed, postage paid, envelopes/cards, write on the portion with your name and address "NO Thanks" and send it back to them. They pay 42? postage and 50? handling. They will not send you any more junk mail.

Ken

Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
At 01:54 PM 6/1/2008, you wrote:
Shredded junk mail works too. Anna

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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:17:43 -0500
From: "BirdWalk" <birdwalk@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wasted fertilizer
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And those places that send checks for 50 cent to perhaps $5 asking you to
send them back with your added donation or rest of payment for sewing
machine etc. those are cashable. We deposit them. Those companies drop
you like a hot potato.



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"NO Thanks" and send it back to them. They pay 42? postage and 50?
handling. They will not send you any more junk mail.

Ken




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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:32:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wasted fertilizer
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I've done all that. Sending mail back, opening and sending it back so they pay postage. Writing and requesting no mail and it keeps on. Now, I shred it and use it to raise worms, add in holes for trees and compost. I personally think there should be a law that you can not contact a person for business either by mail or phone without their written consent. I'm not talking about businesses you choose to do business with. It's a violation of privacy and a waste of energy. There's lots of places to advertise without invading peoples mailboxes or homes on phones they pay for. Anna

Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote:
To stop receiving junk mail, open every one. Those containing self-addressed, postage paid, envelopes/cards, write on the portion with your name and address "NO Thanks" and send it back to them. They pay 42? postage and 50? handling. They will not send you any more junk mail.

Ken

Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
At 01:54 PM 6/1/2008, you wrote:
Shredded junk mail works too. Anna _______________________________________________
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