permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

On 10/28/04 12:24 PM, "Bill McDorman" <bm@seedsave.org> wrote:

> The area
> around New York City should respond by creating a correspondingly dense (but
> sustainable) concentration of small organic farms.

Ironically, this explains why industrialized New Jersey has that bizarre
slogan, "The Garden State," on its license plate. The area surrounding NYC
was, until the 1950s, a "dense concentration" of small farms that supplied
most of the city's needs. New Jersey was a garden. I was born in then-rural
western Connecticut, 30 miles from NYC, and some of my earliest memories are
of running alongside bulldozers that were ripping out farms to build
subdivisions. I hope there is a way to bring the gardens back.

Toby