Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Di - <ziggycatnap@yahoo.com>]

Maybe not completely off topic.
 Effects how, where, and why  us "ordinary folk" garden.
And i sure agree!
D.



----- Original Message ----
From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 8:15:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Water Crisis Rocks LA, Mexico City; Who's Next?


You're right, organic matter level is everything in good soil structure.
But corporate agribusiness can't see anything until it hits them in the
balance sheet. And it will. As for that debt, it wasn't built up by
spending on us ordinary folks since wages have been static for decades
while the wealthy robbed the country into bankruptcy. It's not my debt. Off
topic I know... 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/11/2009 at 8:03 AM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>>
>> I've mentioned freshwater as one part of the perfect storm coming for
>> agriculture, and discussed methods of conservation for food growing. But
>I
>> get no traction even on a list like this, not even pushback. ~paul 
> 
>As for the water crisis at the macro level, I don't see there's anything 
>that's going to stop the juggernaut other than the fall of the first 
>dominoes (as opposed to the ravings of wusses and whackos on the subject).
>
>As for agriculture in my own backyard, my experience is that there is 
>nothing more important than getting the organic matter up in my soil. In 
>more than one season here, I've been surprised when people have told me, 
>"Man, this drought is *awful*--I've already given up on my garden"--when 
>my own garden was not unduly stressed for water. (OM was 8.4% last time 
>I had it tested.)
>
>~Harvey
>
>-- 
>Harvey in northern Virginia
>www.themodernhomestead.us
>
>The current (publicly admitted) level of the national debt is eleven
>trillion dollars, which comes to more than $35,000 *per person* in this
>country. Since roughly 45% of those people are taxpayers, the bill *per
>taxpayer* comes to roughly $80,000. (That's *in addition to* normal levels
>of taxation to fund current operations of government.) What schedule would
>you propose for paying off your share?
>
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