Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I hoped to de-escalate the discussion tactfully, and thanks to those who 
helped. I regret one person has been removed from the discussion, only the 
second in the long history of Livingontheland. Of course aquaponics is still 
a topic on the list as are all the other things related to the list 
description.

Note that the article I sent "World Hunger Best Cured by Small-Scale 
Agriculture", and my defense of it, is a good match to the list description I 
wrote years ago, below:

from http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland
About Livingontheland
English (USA)
   "Intensive, organic soil building is basic to growing much more in less 
space with better nutrition, more profitable growing through less bought 
inputs, less need for water, fewer losses from pests and disease, and less 
vulnerability to fossil fuel problems now or in the future. What ways this 
can best be pursued in different soils and climates leaves a lot of room for 
discussion. We deal with the widespread problems of loss of soil minerals, 
humus, nutritional content of produce, and loss of topsoil itself, as well as 
the cost-price squeeze faced by real organic growers, the shrinking supply of 
affordable land for growing and irrigation water, and the need to increase 
the supply of nutritious food while making healthy food more affordable in 
general. Our generation cannot continue to plunder the soil capital of future 
generations.
   "We include sustainable food growing from home garden to market garden, 
fruits, nuts, berries, fungi, and vegetables, in addition to food and work 
animals. This extends to management of the homestead, land, and forest as it 
relates to sustainable food production, as well as sustainable use of the 
land for human habitat.
   "Living On The Land is not a commercial forum for profit promotions, nor a 
chat forum, and is sensibly moderated to ensure discussions are related to 
the topic."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So that's what the list is for.
Subscribing to the list means discussion within that framework - Intensive 
Organic, growing more in less space. Arguing against that means rejecting the 
purpose of the list, as Steve Solomon once found out.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net