Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["henry walden" <henrywalden@lycos.com>]

Seeings as how this is a discussion sight I'm going to throw my two cents in 
and see where it goes, simply for the sake of debate:

To begin with, as a grower I can see that the Dervas are very passionate 
obout their philosophy, and I'm not looking for points here but anyone that 
has inspired Paul is in my opinion on the right track, as he and his wife 
Barb, and everyone on this list have certainly inspired me.

What concerns me is not what they're doing but how ABC presents it to the 
nation; maybe it's just me but I'm leery (and weary)

of the mainstream media's agenda. While presenting the possibilities of 
sustainability, I would argue that this harks back to our thread recently on 
this issue (self-sustainability) that  we frankly beat to death for about 
three weeks, and if I had to draw a conclusion I think it would be to note 
the in your face impossibility of this and beyond that why?  I don't think 
this should be presented as this family's success story as such, this neither 
shows them the integrity that they deserve nor does it present the realities 
of such a lifestyle. All this said however I still want a bumper-sticker that 
reads " I'm keeping up with the Dervas".

Ed

 

 

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Subject : Re: [Livingontheland] Living Off The Land
Date : Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:40:02 -0700
>From : "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
To : "Kathy" <Vanokat@mrtc.com>, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org


Thanks, Kathy - I haven't kept up with The Dervas, but they've done wonders 
updating their website and their reports were an inspiration to me years ago. 
Now their phenomenal food production in a small area (1/10 acre) is helped 
along by three things: it's a whole family project, they have a year round 
climate in Pasadena (I wish) - and take note of the raised beds with 
intensive planting arrangements (which I've been going on and on about on 
this list). They really pioneered the modern urban homestead movement. 
http://urbanhomestead.org/urban-homestead 
http://urbanhomestead.org/sites/images/chart_urban_homestead_growingmethods.jpg
 
The things that jump out at me are the biointensive, no-till mulched raised 
beds. All right in the middle of La-La Land... 

People, do check the Youtube from ABC Nightline. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net 


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On 3/18/2010 at 10:05 AM Kathy wrote: 

>Here is their website for anyone interested in learning more about the 
>family and what they do. They provide a great example of things that you 
>can do on a very small piece of land. http://www.urbanhomestead.org 
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