permaculture

["Trudie Redding" <tredding@mail.utexas.edu>]

I'm reading Ogallala revised in 2000-about the underground aquiver and
the history of use of water in the region, has a lot of info about
farming-several states, western KS, TX, Colorado etc. includes info
about Mobil oil's use of much of the irreplaceable water-it comes from
the Arctic-level has gone down permanently

Sort of a paradym shift view of what subsidy means, I mean I had a
change of view with this book and the movie "Corn" and am rethinking
subsidy.

Trudie 

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/opinion/01hedin.html?_r=2&ex=136211400
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My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables)

 

By JACK HEDIN

 

Published: March 1, 2008

 

 

Rushford, Minn.

 

 

 

 

Jacob Magraw-Mickelson

 

 

 

 

 

 

IF you've stood in line at a farmers' market recently, you know that the
local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are
having a tough time keeping up with the demand. 

 

But consumers who would like to be able to buy local fruits and
vegetables not just at farmers' markets, but also in the produce aisle
of their supermarket