Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Instead of venturing my own guesses, what's your belief about the Cork 
settlers failing? That's actually a serious point to explore.

My feeling is people won't work at it hard enough or bend enough to make it 
until they're forced to by the direst circumstances. If that's the norm then 
they'll have zero time in preparation and hit the ground real hard.

It'll be hard enough for those of us learning all the DIY and community.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/21/2011 at 8:29 PM John D'hondt wrote:

>At least in the last five years I have put out feelers to people who
>might
>possibly fit in our almost self sufficient family community. No takers,
>except a few who would sink our communal boat in short order if they were
>encouraged or allowed to stay.
>A great many enthusiast who had read John Seymour's books about self
>sufficiency settled independently in West Cork, Ireland in the last 20
>years
>to live the "good life". I have seen most of them fail and that was in
>times
>when one could easily afford to make a few mistakes. We are now coming
>into
>times where one mistake can upset survival on the land.
>I have become seriously pessimistic over the years that a transition back
>to
>the land is possible for most.
>john
>
>>
>>   "Finding a place in the country is central to surviving the next few
>> decades, but the best land for gardening is both crowded and expensive.
>To
>> a very large extent, where we need to live is not where we can live. "
>>
>>