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  • From: "Alex Mcgregor" <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] RE: Response to Mr. Shoemaker
  • Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:44:15 -0400

Good point, Allan. I remember reading about how crop farmers are the
unwitting servants of the plants- wish I could remember where. Anyone else
read this?

Alex McGregor
Walden Farm


> [Original Message]
> From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
> To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 5/4/04 12:19:19 PM
> Subject: [Market-farming] RE: Response to Mr. Shoemaker
>
> > really don't want to start a off-topic discussion, but I think there
has
> >been some research in this area. Certain "other earthly creatures" do
farm.
> >I don't remember all the specifics, but certain insects do farm. I also
> >found an interesting article on snail's farming here:
> >http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,1098954,00.html
>
> Not to deny your larger point, Paul Stamets has argued rather
> effectively that neither snails nor ants garden but rather they are
> the unwitting servants of the fungus itself. He has done this at
> BIONEERS, if not other places. www.fungiperfecti.com -Allan
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