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

FarmI wrote:
> "Rick" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:31:48 +1000, "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 be given>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> <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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.

Home gardening is fine if you have the time and space for it.  Most 
people don't.  And the "organic" stuff that I see at the supermarket 
looks pretty pathetic.

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