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Loretta NJ Z6
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Comments (6)Here's a quick link if you can call a pdf quick. Perennials including the vegetable and fruit kind grow better by far than anything else in our sandy garden so I'll be reading this with great interest. Here is a link that might be useful: article...See MoreWinter readings - Extinct and near-extinct
Comments (2)Great article! Thanks, Warren, for providing some good reading to get us by until spring. Hey, why is my User name all of sudden in lower case instead of EvanTN as usual? Oh well....See MoreQuestions regarding the George Marshal Institute
Comments (4)I find the information on their site quite humorous. They must also be in the entertainment business. Here's a sample: "For much of this century, however that process has been reversed. With genetic seed improvements, fertilizers, pesticides and the relentless land efficiencies of corporate farming, we almost trebled (and in many instances, more than trebled) the land-to-food productivity of our agriculture. That has saved a tremendous amount of land..... "Biotechnology could double and redouble the agricultural productivity of land, in much the same way as silicon technology has doubled and redoubled the informational productivity of sand. We can do even better with livestock. First our cattle graze on the open range, then they fatten in feedlots, consuming much of the grain we grow. Triple the efficiency of the corn (if you can), then triple the efficiency of the cow (if you can), and you cut by nine-fold the amount of farm and range it takes to deliver a burger.... "Pesticides, preservatives, food irradiation and plastic packaging -- you name it, if the Soft Greens hate it, I can almost certainly add it to my list  almost all of these things have comparable effects. They sharply reduce losses along the food chain, from farmerÂs field to dining-room table, with commensurate reductions in the agricultural footprint. To put it another way, these things enhance the efficiency of the solar engines most widely used in this country and around the globe. TheyÂre not sitting on our rooftops, theyÂre not photovoltaics; theyÂre plants. Enhance their efficiency, reduce the losses, and you shrink the agricultural footprint." Sounds like a wonderful, sustainable, golden civilization to me. Here is a link that might be useful: Pristine America...See MoreDiet development
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