permaculture

[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

John,
Were you ever a lawyer? You don't have to answer. You could plead the 
fifth amendment (while it lasts). ;-)
Keith

John Fritz wrote:
> 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 petitions online 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   
>            
>      Request to The Mother Earth News for An Update onThe Methods of Jean Pain
>    
>     Widespread knowledge of Jean Pain's forest thicket composting methods would 
>     help advance rural economies, support the healing of our forests and increase the
>     productivity of our gardens.
>    
>     His ideas could empower rural self-reliance by providing inexpensive heating for our 
>     homes, water, and cooking while enhancing habitat for wildlife.
>    
>     We  encourage The Mother Earth News to publish an update to it's March/April 1980 story 
>     about the methods of Jean Pain especially his methods for easy replication and it's 
>     implications in regard to dwindling natural gas supplies.
>   
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Keith Johnson
"Be fruitful and mulch apply."
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516, Bloomington, IN 47408
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also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting
also Association for Regenerative Culture
also APPLE-Bloomington (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy) It's a 
small world after oil.
http://www.relocalize.net/groups/applebloomington
also Bloomington Permaculture Guild