Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Preserving seeds that produce well on little water is necessary. But in wide 
use it seems like poor use of land in some cases. A lot of small plots should 
be producing as much as possible, if done sustainably, because the people 
need all the nutritious local food they can get. It also needs crops 
irrigated where it's feasible that yield higher calories per acre or square 
foot or more of other nutrients than the big field grains. We don't really 
need half our diets coming from various grains when we can produce far more 
calorie dense nutrition from beans, potatoes, and other crops on the same 
amount of land. Not that we need all that grain with the nutrition refined 
out so it'll keep better - empty calories. And looking ahead, how many 
millions of acres of low yield grains will be grown without fossil fuel 
powered machinery - or any machinery for that matter?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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