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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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 Posted - Jul 24 2004 : 4:04:55 PM
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I was very inspired by this article about a sustainable agricultural
community that is established near Brisbane, Australia. We need communities like this here in the U.S. There is hope!
Here's the link:
http://www.newfarm.org/international/features/0604/australia/index.shtml#
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
497 Posts
cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Jul 26 2004 : 09:48:14 AM
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This looks inspiring; however, I'm a bit put off by the planning of it all, and what seems to be the planned aspect of it all, including the need to have things "approved". I live in what used to be farmland, just outside of a major city. Suburbia, it's called, however there are still farms sprinkled in the area, especially a few miles east of my house. I can get fresh produce, eggs, etc. close by. The problem here is that no one can make a good living by farming and as the older folks die off, or retire, they have to sell the farmland to developers. I imagine there may be some need for planned communities such as the one in Australia, but all that planning turns me off. People need to support the farms and esp. the smaller ones, the ones where maybe the owner has to have a part-time job off the farm to support himself. If we don't support them, then we soon will have everything coming from commercial farms and more goods from out of the country. People need to research and spread the word - use vegetables, etc. that are in season, etc.
Cecelia
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Paula J.
True Blue Farmgirl
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Paula
OK
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2004 : 07:10:09 AM
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I agree, but find it's a hard idea to espouse when everything -- from recipes and cookbooks to the media -- make a habit of incorporating out-of-season produce. I'm not saying this the way I want (not any coffee yet). I guess, at least in this part of the country, organic, in-season produce is almost like a fad -- it's hard to find and people don't understand the need when they can (for instance) buy strawberries in the grocery in January.
I stopped at a little roadside place yesterday to check out the tomatoes. After I had them in the car I was talking to the man who grew them and mentioning how my mom lost all her plants a couple of weeks ago. We thought it was a fungus, but he diagnosed it as something else (a bug of some kind) and said the only way to get rid of it was diazanon. Well, let me tell you, that makes me really want to eat his tomatoes!
But that's the general attitude: "if you can kill it with chemicals, why do anything that's more effort?"
pj
[quote]Originally posted by cecelia
People need to research and spread the word - use vegetables, etc. that are in season, etc.
Paula J.
northeastern Oklahoma
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