Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

   I hesitate to answer questions that make intensive growing sound 
ridiculous. No, I don't use a stick. On a larger scale there are special 
planters that plant through mulch, see newfarm.org . And as for corn, black 
eyed peas, okra, oats, rye, wheat, etc., I have no interest in planting big 
"fields" of anything, and we don't need millions of acres of grain to feed 
our excessive appetite for beef and we don't need the stench of endless 
Midwest feedlots that finish cattle on grains. Trying to imitate big 
industrial row cropping is the surest route to bankruptcy, as millions of 
farm families have learned over the years. Not to mention all the financial 
and ecological disasters from monoculture farming.  I'll let well known 
researchers anwer more of your questions.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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Author is Wallace, Daniel (ed)
Hardcover, ISBN 0878572910
Rodale Press, Inc. PA, 1980

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Your Gardening Season
Author is Hunt, Marjorie B.; Bortz, Brenda
Hardcover, ISBN 0878575995
Publisher: Rodale Pr, 1986

How to Grow More Vegetables
Author is Jeavons, John
Softcover, ISBN 0898154154
Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 1991

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Author is Chan, Peter
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Author is Coleman, Eliot
Softcover, ISBN 0930031229
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co, 1989


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On 7/5/2008 at 9:19 AM mcoldiron wrote:

>For those of you who practice intensive gardening, how do you plant?  Do
>you
>go along with a stick, make a hole and drop a seed in, or do you grow the
>plants ahead of time and plant that way.  If you use a planter, I just
>don't
>see how you do it through the mulch.  Also can't see how you plant fields
>of
>corn, black eyed peas, okra, oats, rye, wheat, etc..., without a planter.
>What am I missing?
>
>Thanks
>
>TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
>West Texas Zone 7b
>
>
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>From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>To: <diebrand@yahoo.com>; <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] TxBee Dry Land Farming
>