permaculture

["roxann" <roxann@ancientearthwisdom.com>]

This morning I heard a reporter covering the lack of workers in Arizona for 
lettuce harvesting. The jist of the story was that growers need to mechanize 
harvesting and grow even larger fields of mono-culture, and THIS will solve 
the immigrant worker problem in America. They said that small family farms 
will fall by the wayside as this new form of agriculture takes hold. And I'm 
in shock and wondering "whaaaat????" What happened to global warming and 
local food? Wouldn't these big machines depend upon fossil fuel and wouldn't 
even larger fields of monoculture be a bad thing???

Roxann, NW AR
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