Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

"Rick" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:31:48 +1000, "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>><Charlie> wrote in message
>>> Sorry, I was also reading this article and became cornfused about what
>>> I was reading and where I was reading it!  Not an uncommon occurrence.
>>>
>>>
http://hartlandag.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-study-industrial-agriculture-crops.html
>>
>>Interesting, but not surprising.  I am trying to remember how some of
the
>>measurements for organic vs inorganic food is done.   I seem to remember
>>brix and baume but that is all that comes to mind.
>>
>>And one has to wonder why kids these day seem to have so many diseases 
>>that
>>were rare when I was a child.  People of my age were relatively lucky
>>because we were raised in an era when the production of food was
organic, 
>>or
>>only beginning on the inorganic track.  Kids when I was young were
>>considered to be rather defective if they had things like Asthma, 
>>psoriasis,
>>allergies etc, because they were incredibly rare.  Now they seem to be
>>almost the norm rather than the exception.  Something has sure changed 
>>since
>>I was a kid.
>>
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> As the referenced articles point out, this is a labor intensive way of
> producing food.

But that depends on whether one is talking about home gardening or 
commercial production.

I garden organically and it is the only way that will improve my very poor

soils, as I add bulk manure and leaf litter etc.  If I gardened 
inorganically, I'd still have soil that looked like that which I started 
with - calf scour yellow, no humus and appalling texture.