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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 9, 2013 20:11:19 GMT -5
I have to agree. If the forum and the soapbox were being inundated with this stuff I could understand clamping down, but that hasn't been happening IMO.
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Post by bunkie on Apr 11, 2013 11:27:11 GMT -5
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 13, 2013 17:47:55 GMT -5
Bee balm and thyme will take care of your antibiotic issues for the most part. Trialing a 2:1 blend of honey & cinnamon for all kinds of ails. I'm taking a teaspoon of the paste in a cup of jasmine tea. Gritty at the bottom, but I add more water and resoak the tea bag a couple times and it all goes down. If I grow hair on my chest or if I suddenly drop 50 lbs overnight using this one weird trick that will piss off all the doctors in Jacksonville.... I'll let you know!
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Post by MikeH on Feb 3, 2014 6:00:04 GMT -5
THE GOOD
On the slopes of Mount Telaithrion on the island of Evia, a group of young Greeks have left the busy city and created a self-reliant rural community. Their goal is to eat only the organic produce they grow themselves, to free themselves from the national electricity grid, and to exchange what they grow or make instead of using money. The project, whose ultimate goal is to create a school for sustainable living, was the idea of four Athenians who met online back in 2008 and bonded over their dissatisfaction with the daily grind of city life. THE BAD (though getting better) On the Other Side of Collapse: Notes from the Island of CyprusTHE UGLYwww.google.ca/search?q=Greek+suicide&oq=Greek+suicide
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Post by steev on Feb 4, 2014 22:29:46 GMT -5
I think that these issues, while appearing social/political, rather than agricultural, may seem off-topic; nevertheless, agricultural policy is intimately social and political. It relates not only to how agriculture is practiced, but by WHOM it CAN be practiced. If Big Ag is subsidized, small farmers are fucked and driven off the land, to the benefit of Big Ag. This is undeniably to the benefit of industrial "farming", to the detriment of genetic diversity of crops and the destruction of local communities.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Federal planning blows. Central planning killed all my relatives that stayed in the southern Ukraine ( dumb-shits should have come to North Dakota, where the living was easy; I joke). Local landraces and local practices are necessary for local survival in hard times. When dealing with living systems, it's a good idea not to be a thousand miles away and in a different climate.
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