In article
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Billy wrote:

If you haven't, have a look at "A Farm for the Future" on youtube.

Boy, you don't see them at all, and then you look, and they are
everywhere. Thanks for "A Farm for the Future".
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a+farm+for+the+future&aq=0

Seems the first two installments were just setting the scene. The last
three were very good.
Thicker grass to prevent damage to the pasture by the steers, perennial
crops, like nuts, replacing grains, increasing production by reducing
size and increasing diversity, working smart instead of working hard, to
re-ruralization, and a return for many to agriculture.

Excellent little video.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn.../04/ST20100904
00158.html?sid=ST2010090400158

Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually
unlivable

By Juan Forero
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Article in the local fish wrap today about the Amazon, terra preta, and
orchards. Pre-Columbian terra preta; "black, nutrient-rich, as good for
agriculture as the soil in Iowa." Still fertile after 5 centuries of
neglect. The Amazonian orchards, resonate with the no-till permaculture
orchards envisioned in "A Farm for the Future". Forward to the past,
where annual plants will play a smaller part in agriculture, and the
tropics will play a larger part in food production?
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html