permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

Johnathan Yelenick wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't realize you were so sensitive to that list and its 
> members. In my experience, I have found the information coming from that 
> list quite useful, particularly as it pertains to sustainable and 
> organic agriculture. Let people make up their own mind about it. An all 
> encompassing condemnation is bad form. Besides, any list has its loons. 
> Earth's sake, I could name a few on this list.

Bad form indeed. I started that list myself years ago only to have a group of 
right wing
pro-agribiz, hippy-hating, anti sustainable agriculture nonentities managed to corrupt its original mission 
(organic/natural/sustainable market farming) and ultimately coopt it. For attempting to make the list adhere to those 
principles I got labelled "a 60's hippy throwback' by one particular obnoxious pinhead dweeb. That's what I got for 
trying to create a useful resource for market farmers and keep it on track.

So I started another list for market farmers:
Market Farming
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/marketfarming
micro to broadacre, ecological, biointensive cropping for market and homestead
Focus: farming and gardening for homestead and market; micro to broadacre in 
scale using organic,
sustainable, natural, biointensive, permaculture, ecological, biological, 
clean-raised/chemical-free,
regenerative, biodynamic methods and materials.

There are 202 subscribers at present but no discussion traffic.
I've been meaning to jump in and get things going. It would help if there 
were one or two others with
interest in this forum also. Conversation there are focused and on topic. 
This could become a very useful forum
for permaculturists, farmers and homesteaders.

just call me a 60's back-to-the-land homesteading market farming 
permaculturist loon