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- From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
- To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] good mottos
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 14:38:48 -0500
Appreciate this discussion very much. I am currently advising a new community garden whose founders need a list serve like this very much-and ATTRA, too-but there is little internet access in this extremely low income area. I wish that I could gather you/plural-all your expertise, tenacity, hope and effort up and plant you in that garden. Shawnee, zone 5 .... nervous about time and all the things that people still don't get. > Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:54:02 -0500 > From: steved AT ipa.net > To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Re: [Market-farming] good mottos > > Hi Nan - > > > We used to say around ATTRA "that if you want to see what large-scale > implementation of sustainable agriculture will look like, wait until the > price > of nitrogen fertilizers triples".... implying that going local for > nitrogen from legumes, > sod-based rotations, crop-livestock, soil biology concoctions, crushed > rocks, > etc.... will become the norm, out of necessity. > > A couple years ago fertilizers went over $1000/ton and farmers up > and down farm country -- and their bankers -- got an eye-full of > the future, then they dropped back down.... at least temporarily. > > Meanwhile, the oil spill in the Gulf looms as the Monster Disaster. > > Fyi, the Fall-Winter-Spring growing season down here is awesome. > > Steve Diver > Austin, TX > > > Nan Hildreth wrote: > > Kathryn, > > > > I believe more folks like you will go into market farming as > > unemployment rises from our failing economy. My Texas oil pro pals > > say things like "declining oil production will end economic > > growth". The good news is when the price of oil goes up a bit, the > > price of food goes up a lot. Every calorie of factory food requires > > maybe ten calories of oil. www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915 > > > > > ...etc ... > > > _______________________________________________ > Market-farming mailing list > Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > > Market Farming List Archives may be found here: > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/market-farming/ > Unsubscribe from the list here (you will need to login in with your email > address and password): > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/market-farming Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. See how. |
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[Market-farming] good mottos,
KAKerby, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Steve Diver, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, BarbaraJ, 05/12/2010
- [Market-farming] New farmers was good mottos, Nan Hildreth, 05/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
William H Shoemaker, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, mamica5, 05/12/2010
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- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, KAKerby, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, KAKerby, 05/12/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
KAKerby, 05/12/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] good mottos, Nan Hildreth, 05/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] good mottos,
Nan Hildreth, 05/12/2010
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