permaculture

["Tom Hodges (moderated newsgroup)" <sustag@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>]

[I think there was a large thread on this on the usenet group,
alt.sustainable.agriculture a while back.  Perhaps Larry London knows
where it is archived. TH]

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 00:11:41 EST
From: " Mike Smith " <auhicmds@ibmmail.com>
Subject: RE: SOIL QUALITY; CON'T (FWD)                                    

Tim & the rest of you,

I ask this question because the South Australian State Government has just
approved the planting of test crops.

Have any of you considered Hemp as a food crop?  It is becoming more widely
considered as a substitute fibre crop instead of cotton.

Mike SMith
President,
Permaculture ACT - Promoting sustainable systems in the region of the
Australian Capital Territory (Canberra)