Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

We keep seeing articles and food experts urging everyone to eat healthy, 
focus on your veggies, provide good food to "food deserts", farm to 
school, and so on. But something's missing and nobody here talks about 
it. It's the fact that there isn't enough of the healthy food being 
grown to supply all these people. We've seen farmers markets multiply 
across the US, yet from what I've seen, most can't even meet demand in 
the local neighborhood - much less a town or large institution. We've 
checked in on several around this state and only a handful out of dozens 
seem to have enough growers to justify even having a market. The problem 
with that is it takes a certain critical mass of growers to attract the 
buyers, and enough buyers to justify the growers' showing up. A lot of 
talk and not enough growing. I know the main reason for it and what it 
takes to change that, but I'm only one and I'm not well known enough to 
make the lecture circuit. Or inclined to try. People are afraid of Work.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net