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  • From: "Andeanfx" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Cities of Light
  • Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:25:19 -0700

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????




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----- Original Message ----- From: "tanya" <tanyagarden@gmail.com>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
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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