Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Making connections, connecting the dots is hard enough. But putting it all in 
a nutshell is rare.

You did it and I believe this is a critical new meme:
"... without significant oil and Ag subsidies our current industrialized Ag 
structure would collapse back to far more local and sustainable systems"

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/1/2010 at 7:10 PM Pego Rice wrote:

>These are interesting articles.  I am glad that the points about
>subsidies is balanced with the mention about subsidies to the conventional
>farmers. I have to agree that without significant oil and Ag subsidies our
>current industrialized Ag structure would collapse back to far more local
>and sustainable systems.  It is certainly worth looking at New Zealand and
>Cuba to see the effects of the suddenly cut subsidy flow. 
> 
>What I DO know is that the cost of Organic and the certainty of non-GMO is
>driving my own gardening efforts and my search into farms and garden
>trades that are close enough I can speak to the grower.  I HAVE at least
>once, found a grower that was using GMO corn seed without understanding
>that his customers did not want to be eating BT, rather than the bugs for
>whom it was intended. 
> 
>Yours, Pego