permaculture

[David Fortson <david@loatree.com>]

Good day,

Yes, the whole premise of feeding 9 billion in and of itself is full of 
loaded questions.  Regardless, 9 Billion (and more) are coming, we must feed 
them and we must fundamentally change the entire agriculture and food system 
to rise to this challenge.

The good news after three days of inspiring speakers is that it can be done 
in a sustainable fashion without out a doubt.  Simply eliminating 
inefficiencies and waste in the current system can feed 9 billion now.  

Other major takeaways from the conference were removing from the current food 
system the multinational 'food' and drug companies who play a nefarious role 
in bottle necking food supply, controlling seeds, dangerous GMO's etc.

Finally, bring people and agricultural back to our land to grow small, human 
scale agricultural operations patterned after nature's own processes.

Speaker after speaker showed easily replicable practices that increased 
yields, built soils, and built community.  It was both exciting and inspiring.

As soon as we have videos, we'll post them here.  For those of you running 
into this thread for the first time, here's the link to our story on this 
conference: http://bit.ly/RRgIgz

Cheers,

David


David Fortson

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