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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] [RE] Food in Uncertain Times
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:20:28 -0700


Sounds like my garden mess gets a pass after all ;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/20/2010 at 10:28 PM henry walden wrote:

>How reasurring is that on a philosophical note, she closes with:
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>"Forget perfectionism! I'm not perfect. You're not perfect. The rest of
>our lives aren't perfect. Why should our gardens be? Let's make practical
>gardens, resilient gardens. And let's manage our resilient gardens with
>cheerful, unapologetic selective sloppiness."
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>Subject : [Livingontheland] Food in Uncertain Times
>Date : Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:05:51 -0600
>From : "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>To : livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
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>excerpt, very long article
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>Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to
>Survive
>Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food
>properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence
>not independence.
>October 21, 2010 | By Makenna Goodman
>http://www.alternet.org/food/148562/food_in_uncertain_times%3A_how_to_grow_and_store_the_5_crops_you_need_to_survive/
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>In an age of erratic weather and instability, it's increasingly important
>to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of
>this, more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening
>techniques that help achieve a greater resilience. Longtime gardener and
>scientist Carol Deppe, in her new book The Resilient Gardener: Food
>Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, offers a wealth of unique
>and expansive information for serious home gardeners and farmers who are
>seeking optimistic advice. Do you want to know more about the five crops
>you need to survive through the next thousand years? What about tips for
>drying summer squash, for your winter soups? Ever thought of keeping ducks
>on your land? Read on.
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>Makenna Goodman: Many gardeners (both beginners and more serious growers)
>come across obstacles they might not have planned for. In your new book,
>The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain
>Times, you talk about the need for real gardening techniques for both good
>times and bad. What is the first step toward achieving this kind of
>resilience?
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>Carol Deppe: The basic issues are getting more control over our food,
>getting lots higher quality and more delicious food, and enhancing the
>resilience of our food supply. There are three ways to do that. The first
>is through local buying patterns and trade. A second is through knowing
>how to store or process food that is available locally, whether we grow it
>ourselves or not. The third is gardening. In The Resilient Gardener, I
>talk as much about storing and using food as growing it. I love gardening,
>but not everyone is in a position to garden every year of their lives.
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