Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

The yuppy vegetable garden. Still, if it gets even a few people to actually 
buy seedlings and stick them in the ground, some good may have been done. I 
worry about the extremes--one messages says "Anyone can do it," and then a 
person tries and for no fault of their own fails (terrible soil, no rain, 
poor quality seedlings, all of the above), and never tries again, thinking 
they're just too stupid. The other extreme is, "Well, you need to do this, 
and this, and this, and this," and by the time some people read that list of 
requirements, they're so discouraged they don't even try.

What I think works best is for people who are actually growing their own to 
talk about it at every opportunity, and offer help with questions and 
problems. There's nothing like knowing your friend or neighbor actually 
grows much of their own food to convince people that it might not hurt to 
try. I make cheese, and I can't tell you how much people have said, "You 
mean, you can do that at home? I thought it had to be done in a factory!" 
And some of them have gone on to make the easy soft cheeses, even if they 
haven't wanted to invest in the time and (minimal) equipment required for 
hard cheeses.

Liz


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> Go Green: How to plant a fool-proof vegetable garden
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