Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Glad to hear all that, Ed. Maybe we can compare notes on greenhouse building. 
I'm not the carpenter but my construction holds in high wind. This winter has 
been a little harder for us, esp for Barb, and I admit I'm not immune to 
getting discouraged. Some mornings the wind is still so I can get out while 
it's cold and work on garden cleanup. To see so much concern from others 
about the things that matter helps more than anyone knows.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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I also look to these guys now and then for encouragement:

   “We need to launch an Organic Green Revolution that fundamentally changes 
the way we grow our food to maximize yield while mitigating climate change, 
restoring clean water, building soils, and protecting agricultural production 
during times of drought.”
~ Tim LaSalle, Rodale Institute CEO
Ripe for Revolution event, New York City

   "Many types of jobs will cease to exist: public relations executive, 
marketing directors, et cetera. I think work will be very hands-on, and a lot 
of it will revolve around food production."
    -- James Howard Kunstler, 2003

   "And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some 
grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and 
to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is 
bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
— Howard Zinn

   "I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. 
Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the 
water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts 
make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple! . . . Silence 
surrounds me, almost audibly, and I live "in modest harmony with nature". 
Thoughts rise to the surface which reach back into the centuries, and 
accordingly anticipate a remote future. Here the torment of creation is 
lessened; creativity and play are close together."
 - Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections"


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/2/2010 at 2:10 AM henry walden wrote:

>Paul, Good to here from ya, things up this way are fine. I'm putting
>together a real nice greenhouse fit for royalty, and enlarging my compost
>bin with a more permanent structure. Doro's been studying Eliot Coleman
>and how ta go a hoophousin, etc. We got some cold frame experimentes going
>and if I get real crazy I might get to adding an additional 1000 sq. ft.
>of growing space. I been spending alot of time with your list,
>particularly interesting thread on sequestration. The whole "to meat or
>not" thread got a little iffy, the message was clear from start '- less
>meat less impact-' otherwise a moral issue that one must answer for
>oneself. The Rodale study was super exciting, it is becoming clearer and
>clearer that proper soil building and carbon sequestration will play a
>huge part in removing CO2. from the atmosphere (and to boot we can feed
>the world and put the farmers back to work). I also ordered the book from
>Harry MacCormack"'The Transition Document'. Inspiring approac!
> h to soil building/maintanence. Alot going on, just listening to the
>little voice in my head telling me to stay ahead of the curve and out of
>the fray. I think it was that same little voice that led me to sit down
>with you on a fine friday afternoon and chat last summer.Say hi to Barb.
>
>Ed
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>Subject : Re: [Livingontheland] [RE] Regenerative Organic Farming: A
>Solution to Global Warming
>Date : Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:43:36 -0700
>>From : "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>To : livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
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>Well hey! What's going on up in Pecos? Snowed in? I've been able to get
>out and do catch up chores in the garden until now. Snow last nite, but
>still mornings I can go out and clear weeds, do greenhouse repair, etc.
>Haven't talked in a blue moon.
>
>BTW New Year's eve will be a blue moon. Everybody know what that is?
>
>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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