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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Are You Insane Enough To Farm?
  • Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:03:16 -0700


You're partly right. Not so much love, more obsession.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 12/5/2009 at 6:06 PM Norma Sutton wrote:

>I would tend to agree with you Paul. I was shepherding and farming full
>time until I decided to move cross country and knew I'd need more cash to
>do
>it then I was making farming. That being said, once I'm there, eventually
>I'll go full time again. Course I think you left out the in love part. I
>think you have to be crazy and in love with what you are doing.
>Norma
>
>On 12/5/09, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm tempted to say anybody who farms that way IS insane... I produce a
>good
>> bit for markets in season, but I didn't have a million dollars to start
>> (more like a couple hundred), don't have tractor or tiller to maintain,
>and
>> I don't pay help. One test of sustainability is whether everybody could
>do
>> it this way and survive reasonably well. If thirty million people grew as
>> simply as I do they could just about feed the country, save fossil fuel,
>> reduce emissions, and revolutionize agriculture in the process.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>>
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