Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Just to be sure I checked 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California#Climate & Palo Alto has a 
Mediterranean Climate. Well, we could all grow more with mild outdoor 
temperatures all year, couldn't we. That isn't brought out in the article.

As for wheat I'm not big on grains. With other calorie foods like potatoes & 
beans etc. I don't see grains as absolutely necessary. Cover crops are useful 
but I'd favor buckwheat there. As for green manure crops, there's plenty of 
organic waste out there, leaves, grass, large animal manure & so on, usually 
free for the taking. I see nothing unsustainable about recycling it, 
importing that waste to the garden from nearby. Myself I don't have room to 
grow my own grasses for composting, & lots of people are in the same 
situation.

Somehow being practical in the big picture doesn't get pumped up in these 
articles.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/15/2012 at 10:29 PM John D'hondt wrote:

>I think we would all loose a lot of weight if we had to live on what is
>visible from this 1/10th acre garden and nothing else. In many places
>people
>would starve. I saw more sun during that 7 minute video than we had all
>summer.
>I also think that the good woman who guides us around does not have that
>much experience. For instance she found harvesting the wheat a problem
>while
>it is really one of the oldest skills known to mankind. Her general
>enthusiasm is great though and from that comes a little exaggeration.
>john
>
>>
>> What's wrong with this picture - anyone?
>>
>> How to Grow All Your Food on a Tenth of an Acre
>>
>http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/how-grow-all-your-food-tenth-acre.html
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>
>>
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