Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net>]

This is the area that Carol Deppe stressed in her book The Resilient 
Gardener.  True, some of her gardening methods are not acceptable to many of 
us, but the rest, the emphasis on a few vegetables and preparation, is 
excellent.  

BTW, I noticed that those gardening methods are similar to those, recently 
discussed, of Steve Solomon.  They both started gardening in the Willamette 
Valley, so I wonder if there's something unique there that encourages these 
methods.
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.net



On Dec 25, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Tradingpost wrote:

> 
> Along that same line, last nite Barb was telling me too many don't want to 
> bother with it. It does make sense that If all have food everyone is more 
> secure.  But too many people used to fast food and frozen dinners don't 
> like strange food - or the work of growing. So we concluded the most 
> successful strategy would be getting others to try growing and preparing 
> only the most familiar vegetables. And of course you can have endless 
> variety in meals from just a few basic foods prepared in different ways. 
> 
> But it does take time and practice to produce food, so the time to start is 
> before shortages or high prices. The time to learn how is not when people 
> are in a panic over the household budget. And of course the lead time 
> between planting and harvesting is months - months of wishing they'd 
> started sooner. So what can spark the interest for those not ready to hear 
> it? 
> 
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> 
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> On 12/25/2010 at 7:13 AM Liz wrote:
> 
>> This is what I've been saying all along--the best way to defend yourself 
>> from your neighbors is to make sure they're prepared too. Unfortunately,
>> too 
>> many neighbors (mine included) are not yet ready to hear the message.
>> 
>> Liz
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 9:28 PM
>> Subject: [Livingontheland] Cities of Light
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Finally, on Xmas eve, someone said what I couldn't put in words, and
>> said 
>>> it well.
>>> 
>>> From the website:
>>>  "If Gail plants her garden now, and gets good at it, she will be
>> raising 
>>> her own food as her neighbors face ever escalating grocery bills. Sooner 
>>> or later, one neighbor and then another will come to Gail and ask for
>> tips 
>>> on how to garden.  In addition to knowledge, Gail may need to share
>> seeds 
>>> or even loan tools -- particularly if things get really bad soon. Gail's 
>>> best security against starving, or having her own food stolen, is to 
>>> insure that her neighbors are not starving.  If only one home on the
>> block 
>>> has food, it is a natural target.  If all have food everyone is more 
>>> secure."
>>> 
>>> Not Arks or Fortresses, But Cities of Light
>>> by Craig Severance  December 24, 2010
>>> http://energyeconomyonline.com/Cities_of_Light.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>> 
>>> 
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