Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

Has anyone read "Polymers [Plastics] Are Forever" in Orion?
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/270
Ever since reading that, I've had a horror about using plastics, to the 
extent I can avoid them. I do indeed have a 20x48 ft greenhouse covered 
with plastic sheeting. I wish there were alternatives, but as Eliot 
Coleman points out, that greenhouse more than offsets pollution 
generated and energy use squandered by ordering in my produce from 
California and Chile. Still, it gives me the creeps to think that that 
stuff will be around in the time of our great-great-grandchildren.

It's like nuclear waste: Let future generations worry about it--I'm 
getting my Niagara of electricity in my lifetime.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
www.themodernhomestead.us