Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Liz" <liz@allslash.org>]

Interesting info about the timing of price increases. I hadn't thought about 
a chicken's lifespan entering into that, for example. I'm also glad if 
farmers are better able to pay down their loans. That by itself may slow the 
invasion of corporate agriculture into family farms. On the other hand, any 
time a profit appears on the horizon, you can be certain people with no 
interest in the work itself, but looking only to get rich out of it, will 
come sniffing around. We don't need any more agribusiness driven only by the 
bottom line.

Take-home message? Get out there and grow more of your own. And in addition 
to that, make an effort to find more local growers where you can buy things 
you aren't able or ready yet to grow yourself. Not everyone has to grow 
everything. I buy blueberries every year from a friend rather than grow my 
own. Helps to support him, and frees up my land to grow other things. He 
buys my blackberries in return.

Liz

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From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 2:47 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] "Get Ready For Higher Food Prices" Goes 
Mainstream