permaculture

["Pete Gasper, Gasper Family Farm" <farmer1@gasperfarm.com>]

We don't need peasants from other countries to teach us, the only folks 
who'd listen them don't need the information. We have plenty of information 
already. What we need is to break the grip of the merchant class on the 
minds of the people. Also our government at all levels fights against the 
people growing their own food. Getting land to grow on is a gargantuan task. 
We also lack 'widespread mutual assistance'. In this country you are more 
likely to be shunned than helped.

Pete

On 05/18/2013 02:34 AM, dwoodard@becon.org wrote:
>   I have the impression that the dacha horticulture/farming phenomenon is
>   to a large extent an urban based middle class affair.
>
>   Ioffe, Nefedova and Zaslavsky quote Vladimir Kagansky in a Russian
>   magazine article of 2003: "In Bashkiriya [Bashkortostan, a Muslim Tatar
>   area east of the Volga near Kazan], the traditional countryside is
>   alive, a true village is still around....In rural Bashkiriya, they work
>   a great deal, build a lot, and drink rarely - this alone makes the rural
>   Bashkirian hinterland amazing beyond belief."
>
>   They go on to comment "Large families, widespread mutual assistance and
>   coordination between rural households, and incomparably less heavy
>   drinking (or no drinking at all) distinguish rural communities in Muslim
>   republics."