Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Good for you Liz, especially making cheese. That may have been the most 
important activity that kept us alive in our first few years here in 
Ireland. By the time we had bought the place we had no money left and three 
babies between 1-5 to feed on extremely poor soil and in a horrible climate. 
Milking goats and making cheese kept us going.
John


> 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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> Subject: [Livingontheland] Go Green: How to plant a fool-proof
> vegetablegarden??
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> > Go Green: How to plant a fool-proof vegetable garden
> >
> > http://www.indeonline.com/mysource/go_green/home/x1225325005/Go-Green-How-to-plant-a-fool-proof-vegetable-garden
> >
> > I'm not too sure about this.
> >
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> >
> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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