Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[tradingpost@lobo.net]

I'm a prepper too in some ways, just trying to be better informed & 
work in the right direction - within my budget;-( I followed the Dervaes 
pathtofreedom.com years ago & saw nothing new since Helen & Scott 
Nearing were living sustainably long ago & wrote about it. Of course 
thousands of others in the '60s started on it & most gave up. Meanwhile 
people like Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch, John Jeavons, Joel 
Salatin, J.I.& Robert Rodale & thousands of others were developing 
techniques we've benefitted from ever since. I'd argue the Dervaes have 
nothing like average peoples' climate etc. Pasadena is one big year 
round garden. As for their claims of incredible food production, frankly 
I think they played to the cameras. Their religious views are no concern 
to me one way or the other. People can research Jules Dervaes online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Dervaes
http://armstrongismlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/03/dervaes-urban-hippy-armstrongite.html

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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Hey
 
Some of those preppers are my friends
 
Tho yeah, some of the things they are showing are all about the 
extremes.  I dunno the Dervaes family personally, but I DO like their 
set-up.  Like the others it shows what can be done, however theirs is 
far more within average means of what a family can do in a normal house 
and yard, not even vast acreage or any kind of armament battery as the 
more survivalist lot have been espousing.  Still extreme in it's own 
way.  Not that many will determine themselves to farm a city lot to such 
an extent that they are not only living off it, but also getting a 
market income.  They certainly are the No-till family as well.  Have you 
seen their website?
 
Yours, Pego
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