Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

I found this quote in my archives:

"The ambition for broad acres leads to poor farming, even with men of
energy. I scarcely ever knew a mammoth farm to sustain itself; much less to
return a profit upon the outlay. I have more than once known a man to spend
a respectable fortune upon one; fail and leave it; and then some man of
more modest aims, get a small fraction of the ground, and make a good
living upon it. Mammoth farms are like tools or weapons, which are too
heavy to be handled. Ere long they are thrown aside, at a great loss."

Source: Abraham Lincoln, Sept 30, 1859, Wisconsin State Fair

Dan C
Belgium, WI

On 10/9/2013 11:00 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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> Subject: [Livingontheland] Big Ag hurts the small farm, but which
>         grows the most food?
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> Big Ag hurts the small farm, but which grows the most food?
> http://www.nationofchange.org/big-ag-hurts-small-farm-which-grows-more-food-1381242642
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> *The Land Grab*