Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

Yes. This is a good concept to consider about many things, but 
especially food.
I described the present commercial food system in an article once as a 
monorail based on transportation, oil, water, and political stability. 
Loss of any leg crashes the whole train down into the next leg and the 
next, like dominoes.

Dan C.
Belgium, WI
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> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:24:59 -0600
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> Subject: [Livingontheland] Food production, food preservation, food
>         storage ? A three legged stool
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> Food production, food preservation, food storage ? A three legged stool
> by Sharon Astyk  Published Apr 25 2011 by The Chatelaine's Keys, Archived Apr 
> 25 2011
> http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-04-25/food-production-food-preservation-food-storage-%E2%80%93-three-legged-stool
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> Periodically someone will come up to me and denigrate one of the three things 
> discussed here, while praising the others. For example, someone will tell me 
> that food preservation is simply too much work, and not worth their time, but 
> assure me they do have a garden and store food for a crisis. Other times, 
> someone will tell me they don?t bother to garden because ?other people will 
> just come and steal your garden? or ?gardening doesn?t pay.? Sometimes food 
> storage is the target ? after all, the commenters observe, eventually stored 
> food runs out, right?
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> While I?m always grateful to see people picking up on one or two of these 
> principles (after all, the average American practices none of them), I do 
> find myself troubled by the idea that one can grasp the need for and merits 
> of one, but not another. To me, they look like a three legged stool, on which 
> a very basic concept ? food security ? rest. And like most three legged 
> stools, you can?t sit on it with one of the legs missing.
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