Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Joan Vibert <joan@windwalkerfarm.com>]

Title: Re: [Livingontheland] Farm subsidies database

Something that isn’t being mentioned anywhere in the statistics is the fact that many people are now being sent home some days because there isn’t work but they are still employed – just paid a heck of a lot less due to loss of hours.  We know several people that this happens to on a regular basis.  We were just talking about needing a shoe repair shop for perfectly good boots that the sole has rotted off of.

Joan 
Windwalker Farm
Homewood, Kansas


> From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> Reply-To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing 
> <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:38:47 -0600
> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Farm subsidies database
> 
> 
> Interesting. Apparently not just those already losing everything. Another odd 
> thing, I've heard shoe repair shops are appearing again. 
> 
> We were talking about coming hard times before the 2008 meltdown but it didn't 
> get much traction back then. 
> 
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> 
> 
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> On 8/22/2010 at 11:39 PM Norma Sutton wrote:
> 
>> Paul,
>> I work in alterations.  We've been doing a LOT more mending and we are
>> seeing the same thing from customers that have been with us for years.  I
>> think everyone is being a lot more careful with what they have.
>> Norma
>> 
>> On 8/22/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We did three local markets in the last five days and noticed one odd
>> thing:
>>> a number of our customers were digging in their pockets and paying partly
>>> with small change. These are three fairly upscale markets.
>>> 
>>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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