Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Designer hand basket - that's a good one. I for one gave up on the world a 
long time ago. My hope is to offer a little help to those who can use help. 
And to do better than just survive. On the perennial crops in that piece, new 
perennial grains aren't likely to make a lot of difference, IMHO. Perennial 
fruits and nuts and berries could help but they always want monoculture 
orchards with all the pests that delight in row upon row of the same thing, 
which mean toxic pesticides and herbicides to most growers. That won't do. 
Still, lots more people could have berry patches and pies and jams and all 
that for winter months. I haven't done much berries before. We're still 
experimenting with Juneberries. Now if we could do more with perennial 
vegetables, that would be nice, but there aren't many of those. Asparagus 
beds take a couple years to really produce, harvesting is labor intensive, 
and the season is short. On the plus side, they're ideal for no-till mulched 
permanent beds, and we finally started a solitary bed this year. I'd like to 
know more about perennial crops. And yeah, permaculture is a bust.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/16/2008 at 11:17 AM bruce smith wrote:

>Hi,
>It is not the world that concerns me.. The world has gone to hell in its
>designer hand basket.
>Hopefully we who are not fooled by the tinsel and glitz will be around
>working our slow way to survival..
>
>On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Mike <mike.lists@mlxvi.org> wrote:
>
>> Stan Cox, haven't you heard that Permaculture will never feed the world?
>>
>> :-)
>>