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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Peak Oil -
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:23:11 -0400

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

Anyone who says or believes farming is easy is certifiably insane; with
all the cultural lore about the miserable lives of farmers, how could

There's way more cultural lore about how wonderful it is to live in a rural
areea and farm (on _any_ scale)
and that lore is or should be closest to permaculturists. So why all the
negative stuff about farming?

anyone think otherwise? Mollison does have some old stories about how
many people could make a living from one piece of land, and I do think
those are Bill's fantasies rather than anything he's seen people
actually do. Bill is magnificent tale-spinner and a great salesman.

He is right on the money. It is possible for any number of people to make money farming on a single communal piece of land. Lets hear some encouragement for people going into small farming, doing csa's, farmers markets and local sales.
Thats the wave of the future in case you haven't noticed.

That's typical for a visionary. There are a few teachers repeating

And there are visionaries to out and do what they preach and put their ideas
into practice.

Bill's stories, and it's a disreputable thing to do. At least make up
your own. But are there really people coming out of PDCs and
straightaway buying farms, thinking it's going to be one big party?

Not a party but a very good thing to do and they will be successful if they
follow the right paths.

LL
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