Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

Yes, exactly.
I'm reading a book called "Survivors" by Rawles right now.
One instance of the dialog puts it quite succinctly: "If you aren't 
growing food and livestock, you are going to die."
(in the context of a community trying to survive Collapse).

I think Will Allen is trying to invest most of the available support he 
has (and that's quite a bit, including his own money) into finding some 
of those same answers you seek, so that others don't have to create such 
a huge infrastructure for the various useful ideas. Some of the 
universities are doing so, and I have a friend in Ohio turning parking 
lots into gardens also, working with people with special needs. At this 
rate, we may end up where the fringe of our society becomes the core of 
our society. That's how evolution works after a dieoff, but the mental 
picture we are taught is that the "normal" part of the population 
'adapts', rather than dies.
    No self-respecting scientist wants to tell the mean Mean that their 
idea of life is doomed from the start: just because they are inherently 
adapted to a slower changing niche and spend most of their efforts 
trying to keep it from changing.

Dan C
Belgium, WI

On 4/24/2012 11:01 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Yes Allen's well known for the work which is a great project. My point is about the 
> title which is way misleading. Not just anyone can grow that much on little land& 
>  most don't have foundation funding or land. It leaves me wondering what techniques 
> he uses can be adapted for the masses. This is not simple. I've been experimenting 
> several years to identify what works and what's not practical for growing food on a 
> shoestring in little space. Specifically to make market growing more rewarding for 
> 10,000x as many growers. I won't make much progress in the time I have left. I wish 
> we could find a lot more growers working in the same direction, but other than Eliot 
> Coleman&  Jeavons most just sell books that raise more questions than answers. 
> SPIN, Square Foot, WORD, you name it.
>
> paultradingpost@lobo.net