Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

"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."

But... the fact that you are able to do it, THAT _IS_ the thing! (duly noting 
your inspiration)

In essence it's about subsistence.  One either can sustain, or one cannot.  
Excess means the extra will be shed.  Not enough means, well, not enough.

In the end it will be about being able to operate off of the sun (no, not 
solar panels!).  The sooner that we peg operations based on this, the sooner 
that we'll be sustainable.

And for a bit of encouragement for us seeking lower, more sustainable 
positions in life:

Miserable Pursuits by Dmitry Orlov
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Archives2010/OrlovMiserablePursuits.html


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Aug 11, 2010 09:36:16 PM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>
>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
>