"We have an unprecedentedly large urban population that has no land to grow food on, no knowledge of how to grow it, and less and less knowledge of what to do with it after it is grown. That this population can continue to eat through shortage, strike, embargo, riot, depression, war - or any of these large scale afflictions that societies have always been heir to and that industrial societies are uniquely vulnerable - is not a certainty or even a faith; it is a superstition."

-- Wendell Berry, "The Gift of Good Land" pg 118

The work of growing food, the knowledge to store and prepare it both efficiently, healthfully and aesthetically, and all that these acts entail, is the topic of much conversation and thought fairly soon after one begins to delve deeply into the potential ramifications of Y2k.

In this thread, feel free to contribute URLs (please learn to make them "hot": brief HTML tutorial that focus specifically on farming and intensive gardening in the Pacific Northwest. Add your own tips and tricks, group them under this category, and you'll help build something useful that you can eventually send others to.

Best,

Cynthia

-- cynthia (cabeal@efn.org), December 13, 1998

Answers

URLs of interest for sustainable agriculture afficionados:

My Store's homepage link to items of farming interest http://skymind.org/redbarn/rbsusag.html

Organic agriculture, Farmscaping, Permaculture and Bioregionalism http://metalab.unc.edu/london/

Oregon Department of Agriculture Page http://www.oda.state.or.us/oda/oda_refs.html

Oregon Climate Service - weather reports http://www.ocs.orst.edu/

University of Oregon's Sustainable Ag Links page http://ifs.orst.edu/links.html

-- cynthia (cabeal@efn.org), December 13, 1998.