Hello everyone, and a particular hello to all at the Circle School, good to know you're still there too. As to Don Graves, if I remember rightly he's of at the...
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Tim Cook
cook015@...
Nov 1, 2003 7:30 pm
Fukuoka Farmers, greetings, About my only dabbling in growing food is a small garden plot that only produces in the winter (this is Alabama) because it's too...
Hello Tim, you might want to have a look at http://gen.ecovillage.org/ for more information on ecovillages. As to whether an ecovillage and Fukuoka's message...
Greetings, The Kobunaki Ecovillage website is timely, with sharp, inspiring quotes from many wise & experienced people who are working on the project. The...
talking about fires, just thought i'd post a link to a very interesting website offering some alternative interpretations of the recent (and on-going) forest...
... Those smoke clouds are over Texas now. We have a strong south wind blowing. That will probably carry them north. My keyboard broke down.....felt like my...
Pavle, thank you so much for the link you sent. For some reason, I was unable to get your email to be accessible to me; I wanted to reply off list. ~Autumn ...
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Walter
uchetz@...
Nov 3, 2003 7:37 pm
Perhaps somewhat off topic: Reading Mollisons books on Permaculture I was stunned about how simple the conversion of cellulose(straw,wood chips) to alcohol is...
Hi Everybody, When the subject of ecovillages comes up, I jump into my time machine and visit some earlier attempts at utopia. The romantic poet Samuel...
... I had to reply on the Aman[d]a group. Amana Society has been a neighbor of my familly since teh 1870's, when my great-grandfather got to Iowa from Bohemia...
Hello everyone, it seems the old guard of this list have moved off to other things, new inspiration perhaps, new trials, new lives...and here I am continuing...
Police Save Sacramento from Seed-Ball Terrorists Starhawk Early in the morning of June 21st, a phone call awakened those of us staying in the organizers' house...
Jamie.....I don't know if the Old Guard has moved off.....or is just busy with other things at the moment. I have noticed that all of my list groups are a bit...
Hello Gloria, I understand your commitment and enthusiasm for non-chemical ways of gardening and you seem to work tirelessly to have that message understood...
Well said Jamie, I've been enjoying your writing an look forward to more. I would also enjoy more of Stephen Inniss, Art Petrzelka, and Royal A. Purty's...
Hello Les, you ask: "How do we ask a previous crop to give way? How do we create a clean seed bed as is achieved when the soil is tilled? Look forward to your...
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Larry Haftl
larry@...
Nov 8, 2003 10:21 pm
Hi Jamie, ... other ... Don't know if I qualify as what you call "old guard", but definitely fit into the "new inspiration, new trials, new lives..." category....
I do not know if the following experience is reproductible, but it stroke me. Last year some potato must have been forgotten in the soil, this winter was not...
Jamie, Thank you for the link <http://sino-sv3.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/loy3.htm> & the detailed example of rotation intercropping. ... ...you...
Gloria, Offering the Fukuoka website as a source for the Organic Gardening list "to look into more than just converting their, perhaps, formerly chemical...
Larry, Best of luck for the new life in Chicago's highly seasoned environment. The Dervaes family in Pasadena (http://pathtofreedom.net) is an inspiration....
Jamie....I am not trying to infer to them that Natural Farming is an organic practice. I am trying to challenge them to move onward on their journey. There...
Hello everyone, Napi asks the question "What is a bridge-building definition of what is so harmful about the beloved term organic, that could be used to cross...
Hello Les, I'm always leaving some plants in the beds to go to seed and hoping for vigorous crosses (I'm watching some very mixed brassica progeny growing...
Hello Xavier, the use of self-seeding vegetables makes agricultural life very easy - as Fukuoka notes, potatoes are vigorous enough to see off most other...
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Michiyo Shibuya
michiyos@...
Nov 9, 2003 1:11 pm
Hello, It seems like I can finally buy the long waited "recapitulation" book. They are sort of reluctant to sell the copies because only several dozen is left,...
Hi Michiyo, Of course I want a copy. Since there are so few, I won't buy any more than one, unless you have some "left over." Bob Monie--south Louisiana ...
Hi Gloria and All, Regarding the gift book list, I would recommend the other 2 Fukuoka books that have been translated into English and are now available at...
