permaculture

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

ktho@comcast.net wrote:
> Dear Folks:
>
> I first advocated this idea 10 years ago and have been pushing it here in
> Yamhill County, Oregon ever since I moved here 5 years ago. I can send along
> all documented copy that I have written on this subject if that will be
> helpful. 

Publish it here in the list or put it online and link to it - I'll 
provide webspace to house those documents.

This is amazing, you have nearly outdone yourself, Kathleen.

> We need Community Victory Garden FoodSheds at every Head Start, Elementary,
> Middle, and High school in America, which will function in  4 capacities:
>
> 1. Community Victory Gardens for the  students, teachers, administrators,
> and their families - year round,  built on a hybridized pattern  - a
> marriage of - Community Gardens with Victory Gardens.

And the British Allotment System.

> 2. Farmers markets with richly diverse crops, which will raise money for the
> schools, train future local farmers, and provide localized seed-saving and
> propagating hubs.

Yes!

> 3. Living Laboratories on a shoe string where you can teach math, chemistry,
> physics, botany, biology, etymology, mycology, meteorology, literature,
> history, civics, business, 

And shop: woodworking, art metalwork, metalworking, blacksmithing, 
welding, machine shop, design and prototyping.
Add: marketing education and grassroots opportunities, online and local, 
community-oriented. A Production & Services Marketing and Distribution 
Network should be established. This could be a resource helping
"FoodShed security hubs which will help to decentralize and secure food
supplies locally".

> 4. FoodShed security hubs which will help to decentralize and secure food
> supplies locally. This idea is not new at all - Alexander the Great, the
> Caesars of Rome, and Napoleon, among others, *all* exhorted their people to
> keep their own small patches of food
> 5. Serve as hubs for converting private yards, then city & county parks,
> then the land around and in front of every civic building (police stations,
> courthouses, city halls, community centers, churches, jails, etc. ) and
> finally every Hell strip to be found, into Victory Permayardens.
>
> Yr. Obed Scrvnr.,
>
> Kathleen Blair
> McMinnville, OR
> Precinct Committeewoman Precinct #15
> Political Action Chair
> Yamhill County Democrats

YES!