nott@ihuxw.UUCP (12/06/83)
net.garden
nott@ihuxw.UUCP (12/06/83)
Monday - December 5 Subject: Feelings on the Regenerative Agriculture Association and Rodale Press. RAA is a group of good people, dedicated to providing a way to eating and living in the future. They are totally financed by donations and magazine sales. This magazine, if you're not a farmer or gardener, may not be the one for you. Many of their ideas are put forth from their own observations and the need to have other people (the readers) try them out for themselves. A quick correction....the publisher of Organic Gardening, New Shelter, etc is ROBERT Rodale. Rodale comes from a short line of wealthy environmentalists in Eastern Pennsylvania. Rodale is not involved in any tricky marketing schemes. His magazines, while not scholarly journals, are very informative in their particular fields. "Entertaining" is not a good word, either. As the markets continue to fill up with more and more chemically-produced and nutritionally-deficient garbage, the people who consume them will suffer. The ones who will remain healthy are the ones who adhere to some of Rodale's ideas. Rodale also publishes a large number of hardcover books in the fields related to the monthly magazines. For others who happen to be reading this, I am an amateur gardener living in Lewisville, North Carolina. My garden consists of ten 5x20 double-dug beds which produce more food than my family can eat or can. I also have a newly planted orchard containing apples (4), peaches (5), plums (3), and one nectarine. Unfortunately, our UNIX system in Winston-Salem is not on the "net" for all this good news I see from time to time. Luckily, I have a good friend who keeps me up on some of this info. If you care to compare ideas and future plans, feel free to wire me at wruxd!ss25e16 Have a happy..........Bill Leonard (Cornet 294-3633).