Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

Title: Re: [Livingontheland] AGRICULTURAL APOCALYPSE, 2010

OK, I don't want to add "panic" into the equation, but facts need to be identified before making decisions.  I realize that not everyone can adjust to combat everything, but having data/facts allows people to perform their own risk assessments.

In troubled third-world countries you generally don't get masses of people swarming farms.  What you get are warlord types doing the plundering and then marketing the booty.  My point here is that it is misleading to have people thinking that they won't be "visited" because people don't know about farms...  Farmers, as humble and low-key as most are, are still likely going to appear wealthy to the destitute (and those looking to gain at the expense of such suffering)- don't flaunt, and don't think that you can become your own fortress.  Also, things will change: initial difficulties will be quite  heated (lay low- be humble), after which there will be less random (appearing) disturbances (though these too will present risk issues).


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Apr 8, 2010 07:10:18 PM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>
> I was thinking about this article in the shower this
>morning and wondered if we really have to worry about hordes of people coming to
>our farm for food. First of all, there really are some who don’t know
>where food actually comes from; and, second, they have no clue what it is or how
>to prepare, cook, or eat it. I’ve had checkers at our local grocery
>(we are a “farming community”) have no clue what a butternut squash
>or kale is, hadn’t even heard of it. The inner city folks have been
>removed from real food with the lack of true grocery stores so that they have to
>rely on Quick Trip and other mini-marts for food. We truly wouldn’t
>have anything they would recognize and that’s pitiful. The folks in
>the suburbs would be so stunned that no one has food “for them” that
>they might just sit and wait for food to show up somehow. It’s all very
>interesting to ponder and I doubt little in the article so I think we need to be
>prepared to teach people, maybe in return for real work!
>
> Joan
> Www.windwalkerfarm.com
>
>
> > From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> > Reply-To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
> > <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:22:31 -0600
> > To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] AGRICULTURAL APOCALYPSE, 2010
> >
> >
> > I hope catastrophic or “mass starvation” in places is too
>strong a word, but
> > there is evidence I find credible, for what it's worth, which is why I
>passed
> > it on. There have been reports of many growers running into a credit crunch
>
> > from lenders to finance their current season. Winter vegetables have been
>
> > decimated by U.S. weather. Just today we saw a fast food sign about tomatoes
>
> > only on request if available. We know the biofuels boondoggle has driven
>up
> > the cost of corn which goes into thousands of processed foods. And could
>our
> > USDA put out a demonstrably false and contradictory report for political
>
> > reasons? You tell me.
> >
> > I'm starting extra tomatoes and peppers now.
> >
> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> >
> > On 4/7/2010 at 10:09 PM Tradingpost wrote:
>
>

---

>_______________________________________________
>Livingontheland mailing list
>Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland
>