Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["henry walden" <henrywalden@lycos.com>]

Ya I been here the whole while, it's an honor to take part in this list but 
it's also a hell of a lot of work, learning, learning, learning, a guy ought 
to have to "pay to play" like everwhere else, just kiddin. Couldn't help but 
get a kick out of a customer last Sunday when she asked me if my cabbages was 
"organic", I looked down at them bug eaten cabbages and the only thing I 
could think of to say was "clearly". That kinda caught the kids that was 
standin there off gaurd so I again didn't know quite what to say, so feeling 
a little offended I said if you want the ones without the bugs you're gonna 
have to go to the supermarket. I hope they carry that lesson for a while. 
Nothing against supermarkets mind you.

Ed




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Subject : Re: [Livingontheland] [RE] The only way to tell what your soil 
really needs???
Date : Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:31:50 -0600
>From : "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
To : livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org


Well, there you are! We finally made Eldorado last week. It's bigger this 
year, good sign for our selling. We've made three markets last week, had too 
much harvested and so we started Corrales on Sunday morning - 53 sellers 
there. The Giant Marconis and Delicatas drew attention. Odd that tomatoes 
aren't the big seller so far but the sample plate is helping with that. May 
have to keep up all three markets a while. We just had our second huge 
thunderstorm of the year but I had to get back out in the garden anyway, to 
harvest tomatoes, beans, peppers, oregano, &amp; snow peas to have time for 
more picking and loading the van tomorrow morning for Cedar Crest. 

Barb's better now, still on that annoying oxygen thing but cooking again. 
Just had some garden goodies, Romano pole beans, shallots, golden beets and 
their greens, all cooked with olive oil and a dash of balsamic. Happy days 
here again. Barb says hi to Dorothe (sp?). We'll keep an eye out. 

Oh, and I like your soil test ... 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net 

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** 

On 8/24/2010 at 6:01 PM henry walden wrote: 

>Greetings Paul/Barb, happy season, hope to see you in Eldora-doo soon 
> 
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> 
>Soil test: Get down on your hands and knees, bend your elbows, put your 
>face very close to the earth, study it, is there life? 
> 
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> 
>Ed 
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