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

Ok, sounds good, I would like to see her. No the comment wasn't serious,
it was out of context from a previous person.

I'm going to refer to the book Ogallala again and say that while
discussing farmers and a lost way of life, there is a generalization
made, that they all do good work. This book points out that generation
after generation of American farmers have broken every natural or do you
want to call it permaculture rule in the book with their "way of life",
some are so stubborn that they are drying up the underground aquifers
and have been told about it for forty years so I have had a paradigm
shift and think about how we've been told about the "farmer way of life
is getting lost by buyouts and subdivisions." This is all true, but it
is also true that generations of farmers have tried to produce food in
regions that had no water and no rain and have been heavily subsidized
for years and have not wanted to put leaves etc on top of the baby
plants to keep water in "because it doesn't look pretty", don't make
their own compost, but buy fertilizer, choose to have cattle and then
feed them what they cannot digest, or what we now know has parts of
other cattle. I just should put a number next to each of these
statements and you can do some research and find out that not everything
is as it seems.
Please don't think I am putting down all farmers, but as far as ecology
goes the American farmer has done an equal amount of harm as the
American car manufacturers. That being said is only my opinion and not
to be taken out of context. We are hoping that all of us can see the
light and work together.
Trudie 
-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Brooks
Miller
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:42 PM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [permaculture] An Unreasonable Woman

" I just read "An Unreasonable Woman." In lay terms, it is a easy to
understand look at small town politics and concerns about Seadrift and
its
polluted waters."

I got to see Diane Wilson (the author) speak at the PASA conference in
February.  Don't miss her if you have the opportunity.  She spoke to a
room
full of multigenerational, sustainable family farmers about watching
your
way of life disappear, from a shrimper's perspective.  She shoots from
the
hip and tells it from the heart.  She was an excellent, hilarious, and
emotional speaker.

And was the comment, "Of course all that is true but its better to get
on
with your work and not worry about such things" serious?  Wilson
certainly
had no choice in the matter, and she couldn't get on with her work.
People
like Joel Salatin deal with it everyday as well.  What happens when that
party comes to your neck of the woods?  Good luck "leaving it to the
trolls"
then.  I'm all for picking your battles, but when the battles get picked
for
you, I hope those of us who produce food from healthy ecosystems come
out on
top.



Brooks
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