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  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] More on Low Dairy and Meat Diets
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 9:44:21 -0700

This is a very important point. I think a lot of the fear of government is
based on an inflated vision of its actual power.


---- Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
> Good line, wasn't it. In real life it would take an enormous army of
> bureaucrats to police millions of home gardens across this country. And I'd
> dare say as the economy keeps slipping more and more people everywhere will
> wish they started home growing a lot sooner. We won't have that "fifty
> million farmers" but we may well see fifty million home growers. Esp if
> they find out the Big Secret - that cooking simply from scratch costs a
> fraction of what they spend on food now. And that cooking your own home
> grown can cost next to nothing. And it may be more productive than looking
> for a job.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
> "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good
> food from fresh ingredients."
> -- Julia Child
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 6/26/2010 at 10:28 AM Harvey Ussery wrote:
>
> >> What we are both really doing is working under big brothers radar. We
> >> are small and we keep our heads down. I do not sell vegetables or any
> >> of the other foods we grow or make ourselves. If I did TPTB would
> >> descend on me like a ton of bricks.
> >>
> >> The real question is how long we will be able to keep doing this. I am
> >> sure indefinitely is not the right answer. ~john
> >
> >"I can see the day comin'
> >When even your home garden
> >Is gonna be against the law!" ~Bob Dylan
> >
> >
> >--
> >Harvey in northern Va
> >www.themodernhomestead.us
> >
> >My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year
> >by Chelsea Green Publishing.
> >
>
>
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