Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Andeanfx" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>]

My-OH-My.  I was talking to a youngish nurse who literally stunk of 
cigarette smoke and told her vitamin B-3 aka nicotinic acid, I believe, is 
the mirror image of nicotine and can often curb the desire for a smoke.  She 
was nice but let me know she did not want the desire curbed.  She enjoyed 
it, her entire family smoked they each enjoyed and they enjoyed smoking 
together.

If one has 100 people (easy for % calculations).  Take out those who don't 
want to change.  That is a bunch.  Take out those who cannot be "assured 
enough" of their success which I would not be much good at giving because 
there is a pretty darn steep learning curve.  Got rid of another bunch. 
Take out those that don't make the learning curve.  Take out those who are 
unwilling to unlearn what they have been taught.  Take out those that don't 
have a clue as to what has been done to typical garden space of the world by 
tilling, chemical fertilizers, hard water and above ground irrigation. 
Don't forget those who are working extra jobs just to keep ahead of the bill 
collector; those who have been in the food and medical  system long enough 
to be disabled by and of course there are those who are just too damn lazy 
to give a rip, I guess maybe I repeat myself but it goes on and on.  Will 
someone please enlighten me as to from where this large percentage of the 
people to educate is to come?  I think we moved to the right of decimal some 
time ago.

Really????




I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually 
happened. -- Mark Twain


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tanya" <tanyagarden@gmail.com>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
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Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Cities of Light


> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
> > I wish I knew what would spark people's interest--a larger percentage of
> > people, I mean. ...
>
> Need alone isn't enough. People also have to know they'll succeed, and
> they have to know how to store and cook with the bounty. So a massive
> education campaign, with lots of local hands-on teaching, couldn't
> hurt.
>
> The rising popularity  of school gardens in some places should help:
> get them interested while they're young. And I love that Michelle
> Obama started a kitchen garden at the White House and is talking about
> healthy eating.
>
> A historical perspective helps: during WWI and WWII, victory gardens
> in the U.S. supplied a huge percentage of produce eaten. The
> government promoted them endlessly.
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