Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

Stupid cotton lobby:o(  Can you imagine the reduction in pesticide usage for fabrics if we went back to hemp.  Low water, low feeding, easy harvest - but hard to process like flax <sigh>  We have to buy our help from Canada or China.  Such a darn shame - and they blame it on "the war on drugs" lol.  Who the heck would smoke hemp?  the good fiber stuff has nothing to do with pot. 

Blessings,

Aliza



“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

--- On Thu, 5/5/11, moon@ceva.net <moon@ceva.net> wrote:

From: moon@ceva.net <moon@ceva.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] chicken and rabbits
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 7:03 AM

  Meat rabbits seem to be the cheapest keep. What else would they need 
by clover and a cage? You can buy rabbit in the frozen section, from 
China,a national discrace.
  Ken, where can we read your articles? I'm not getting back into 
chickens till i can grow food for them.I tried the 'free rangers' from 
PA, guess I have to go out w/ them and show them how it's done. This 
is hemp history week. Wouldn't that make a good roaster?

  From VICFA:

George Washington is quoted as saying:

"Make the most you can of Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
This week, May 2 - May 8, 2011
is Hemp History Week.
Hemp is one of Earth's most sustainable, versatile and profitable 
crops. It is among
the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years 
to the beginnings
of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest 
relic of human
industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.

Hemp History Week is a national grassroots education campaign, which 
is designed
  to renew strong support for hemp farming and processing in the U.S.

Did you know that America's history is rooted in growing hemp?

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Hemp is of great importance to our 
nation," and yet
  today, the U.S. is the only industrialized nation where growing hemp 
domestically
is prohibited. That is why we are advocating that the U.S. federal 
government change
its policy towards industrial hemp, which confuses oilseed and fiber 
varieties of
Cannabis grown for food and industry with drug varieties of the plant.

Hemp History Week seeks to:


* Celebrate America's rich history surrounding hemp farming, 
processing and marketing
before it was banned and to educate the public about the barriers to 
hemp farming
in the United States.
* Engage consumers by highlighting the range of hemp products 
available and the
nutritional as well as environmental benefits that they provide.
* Advocate for a federal policy change while sending a strong, 
positive message
to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to end the 
ban on hemp
farming and let farmers once again grow the versatile and profitable crop.
May 2 - May 8, you can get involved during Hemp History Week and help 
to support
  the goals outlined above.
For more information on ways that you can help, the history of hemp, 
and the importance
of awareness, please visit www.hemphistoryweek.com 
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=swmpzcdab&et=1105371056402&s=179&e=0014aLHOg1FNf6ieiXOWlFL7RFvmTa4ZrSzgCllZcMnreyLPqkNgC5pqAmAFpeIJRSLK8tsUUMN-pyVebe9vYFTsMG9nxZVkFqfvVmalHGdczUIbp9c6tKbDA==]
  or  www.votehemp.com 
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=swmpzcdab&et=1105371056402&s=179&e=0014aLHOg1FNf4Xq4RVg_wXRFN0NpHV78_IphjmTbuF5emtmio2u0Vs9AfujJZ4EOnQ8tnSNeeOZZ3mYJHpfsILHi-vsYjO1Lxhpwl_zb42ZBI=]
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VICFA


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