Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

IMHO, from all I see going on it's impossible to restrain the powers that be 
in this economy. Congress is paralyzed and wholly owned by financial, 
insurance, and real estate (FIRE). So we'll be restrained when mother nature 
does the restraining - at terrible cost. Some say the tipping points have 
already been tipped and nothing can be done now anyway; I don't know. But 
people will always need food and learning better ways of producing it under 
adverse conditions with low tech is my course.

On the hopeful side a local market we need has been reborn under new 
management, after flaming out last year. We restarted there today and it was 
one long day. What drives us growers is hard to pinpoint but maybe it's the 
personal chemistry between growers and customers - nothing  of the sort in 
supermarkets of course. Otherwise I can't explain our ridiculously low profit 
per hour taking into account the months of growing and tending before we ever 
get to market. It's all uphill in this big ag subsidized economy and cheap, 
toxic food onslaught.

     "As long as we value healthy food and cooking so much less than doctors 
and hospitals, we will keep paying more and more for doctors and hospitals."

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/11/2010 at 2:22 PM Pego Rice wrote:

>Hi Paul
> 
>I think that is inaccurate.  That extended period was only 1-2 degrees
>warmer at most and we had neither the population nor the rapid industial
>heat ramp up that we are currently experiencing.  The "majority" of
>climatologists that I am seeing agree both to that and that this ramp up
>will cause our climate to overshoot that 2 degrees quite badly.
> 
>One to 2 degrees coming on so violently will cause quite a number of
>disruptions in our weather, which we've already begun to see, however, if
>we can restrain ourselves sufficiently in time to stop a greater increase,
>the damage will be somewhat manageable.  There were actually 2 of those
>warm periods, the second was the time oif the Dark Ages when England grew
>grapes.