permaculture

[John Fritz <johnfritz77@yahoo.com>]

The following is my first draft of a petition to The Mother Earth News (MEN) 
for and update to their March/April 1980 story about the methods of Jean 
Pain, in his use of forest thicket compost.  I had considered using 
petitionsonline to compile the signatures but thought that this could be 
construed as an adversarial approach to garnering MEN's help.  For now I 
think that I will just submit the following to the permaculture list,  set a 
reasonable time limit for response to me, and then printout the responses and 
mail them to MEN.  Please do not sign the following petition at this time.  I 
am just looking for input at this time.  When we have a final draft I will 
re-submit it as "Final Draft of Mother Earth News Petition" and then begin 
collecting email signatures.  Thanks for any ideas you may have.  
   
  John Fritz, NW Arkansas.
   
   
           
            Petition to The Mother Earth News for An Update onThe Methods of 
Jean Pain
   
  Whereas, widespread knowledge of Jean Pain's forest thicket composting 
methods would 
    help advance rural economies, and 
   
  Whereas, this same knowledge would advance the healing of our forests and 
the production 
    of our gardens, and 
   
  Whereas, this same knowledge would advance the space heating, cooking, and 
water 
    heating self-reliance of rural economies, and 
   
  Whereas, this same knowledge would create beneficial habitat for wildlife 
in areas where it
    is applied, therefore
   
  Be it aknowledged that the undersigned to hereby request that The Mother 
Earth News 
    publish an update to it's March/April 1980 story about the methods of 
Jean Pain.  We
    do also request special attention to the specifics of his methods for 
easy replication by
    interested parties, especially as pertains to the ramifications of 
dwindling natural gas 
    supplies.

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