permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

akiva w wrote:

> > Can you get rock dusts anywhere there? Quarry dust,
> i.e. siltation pond fines?
>
> > You could use and sell that for good profit and
> > provide a vary valuable soil amendment

> plenty of rock dust already in the soil here. i'm not
> big on transporting resources and usually find most of
> what i need in the neighborhood.

As long as its not just mostly quartz sand you're ok.

> > I am tooling up to manufacture worldclass lifetime
> > hand tools fo raised bed gardening. I can give you
> > exclusive Middle East importation rights if you're
> interested.
>
> cool, i'm big on quality hand tools. even better than
> importing them, sell me the specs and they can be
> manufactured here. there's a lot of tax on important
> items and the higher profit margins are in the
> intellectual proberty imho.

That would be interesting. Maybe there will be a possibility
for this to happen. We will see. There is one tool currently manufactured in 
Europe
that is nowhere else available: the seeding rake; see Sneeboer's version - 
has a long
thin T handle, makes it especially useful for grading large raised beds. It comes in 4, 6 and 9 tine models and you 
really need all three for general garden work. No other tool comes close to being as useful as rhese. You could start
by having these mass-produced in Isreal for export to the American market. Current price for the 6 tine model: around 
$100-120. It should really sell here for no more than $50-$60.

LL