Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

It is the American Neurosis, to want to prove yourself with more than  
you can handle. Fossil fuel and being able to avoid personal  
responsibility with corporate protection have expanded the problem  
until it's a global plague instead of a personal crisis. May we learn  
quickly.

Marty
On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Tradingpost wrote:

> Quote of the Week
>
> "The ambition for broad acres leads to poor farming, even with men of
> energy. I scarcely ever knew a mammoth farm to sustain itself; much  
> less to
> return a profit upon the outlay. I have more than once known a man  
> to spend
> a respectable fortune upon one; fail and leave it; and then some  
> man of
> more modest aims, get a small fraction of the ground, and make a good
> living upon it. Mammoth farms are like tools or weapons, which are too
> heavy to be handled. Ere long they are thrown aside, at a great loss."
>
> Source: Abraham Lincoln, Sept 30, 1859, Wisconsin State Fair
>
>
>
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