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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] realism when looking at inputs
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:37:07 -0500


Anyways that is what I meant by assessing the inputs. Sure there are benign
practices, but the reality is unless you live way out there, where you can
borrow from nature to get the inputs you need to sustain your high intensity
gardening and eco-friendly practices, my guess is you are really just fooling
your self rather than having to cope with cognitive dissonance.


Very interesting. But aren't you missing something? These things would happen anyway. At least, I assume that you're not buying a newspaper only to use as mulch? And your neighbors are going to do what they do, whether you use the leaves or not. These really ARE free inputs, unless you're driving to the neighbors to pick up the leaves.

Wood chips are similar, if not quite so benign. The city doesn't have tree crews just so they can create wood chips. Instead, the chip are probably just a way to get rid of the brush which they'd be cutting anyway. OK, if you use your Hummer to drive 20 miles to the site and pick up one bucket of chips at a time, it's probably not environmentally friendly. But ordinarily, it's not that bad, either.

It seems to me that you're using "very narrow and... biased" thinking here, yourself. At least, I don't see why begging leaves from the neighbors to use as mulch isn't about as benign as it gets. But maybe they fertilize their lawns only so you'll have plenty of leaves?

:-)

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

--
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis




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