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  • From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT marketfarming.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Waste and natural items and running machinery
  • Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 07:58:28 -0400


>Another solution is to grow high value foods biointensively which
>uses low tech tools like shovels and widgers, eliminating the
>need for machinery that uses a lot of oil.

Shovels and "widgers" are great for gardens, but farms are not 100% garden.
Pushing down old barns, regrading driveways & paths, pulling out logs,
bush-hogging clear areas not in pasture, mowing & baling hay, not to mention
preparing the soil for planting, harvesting, etc----I like handwork, but not
52 acres worth.

Liz Pike
Laughing Brook Farm
Westfield NC
http://marketfarming.net/laughingbrook/





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