Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Understand your feelings all too well. But really, to find others is like 
finding a soul mate only more difficult if you want more than one helper.
We tried via the WWoof network and failed.
john

>  Hi Group,
>  Is one prepper prepping make a prepper?
> Forgive me if I m digging up an old string, but for the Grace of God,
> how do you find anyone who can ...uh...live the life.I have more
> resources then I can operate, yet prospective 'workers' come expecting
> salary,want to come after 5 mo of production, June, or want to stay
> week.
>  are we hip yet? After All the press, where's the new blood?
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> > 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.
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Dervaes
> > http://armstrongismlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/03/dervaes-urban-hippy-armstrongite.html
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> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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> > Hey
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> > Some of those preppers are my friends
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> > 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?
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> > Yours, Pego
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