----- Original Message -----
From: Michaele Blakely <mjb@premier1.net>
To: Andy Lee & Pat Foreman <goodearth@rockbridge.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Integrated Food Systems
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andy Lee & Pat Foreman <goodearth@rockbridge.net>
> To: sanet <sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 8:50 AM
> Subject: Integrated Food Systems
>
> Dear Lion-
>
> I know I said I was done posting about micro-farming. Well.....my hope is
> that you will take this olive branch with grace and all of us on this list
> can work toward developing our own personal goals in agriculture.
>
> I've said before I am a supporter of your ideas, but I have very little
time
> and you have an extensive web page with many links to go to. I have book
> marked it and as I have time I am going through bit by bit. I plan to
spend
> more in depth time this winter when I will have time to thoroughly
> contemplate.
>
> I take what others have implemented and apply them to what I have
> discovered. I do not prescribe to any "one way" of doing anything. Most
> farmers are like that in my opinion. Slow to change, and for good reason.
> Tried and true ways are better than losing a crop. Also when a system is
> set up one way, it is sometimes difficult to see another's way, or to
change
> in mid stream. Give this time, let people ponder a bit and ask questions,
> and criticize, and debate. If handled correctly much good comes out of
> challenges.
>
> It does seem that now there is becoming an emphasis on schools for farming
> and methods, within colleges and universities as well as less formal
> placement of apprentices and interns. People are now paying to learn what
> use to be second hand information. This is good, but also it concerns me.
> There will be some who capitilize on it. But there will also be others
who
> are there for the ultimate means of conveying a message as you say you
are.
> All in all, what happens is people take the ideas from one form of thought
> or method and apply it to how they integrate that knowledge. And if it
> comes from Permaculture or your Synergy, or John Jeavons, or Eliot
Coleman,
> or countless other methods ,or a paid for tuition it is the end result
that
> is important. There is plenty of room in this world for many answers.
>
> I wish you well in your quest. I will follow your endeavor. I hope you
move
> on with your plan now of trying this out (I think I read that that is what
> you want to do). Eugene Oregon seems an ideal spot to do this. It has
all
> the right elements. Please continue to contribute in a positive manner on
> sanet, and find a way to forgive those who do not see things as you do.
>
> Respectively,
> Michaele Blakely
> Growing Things
> Carnation WA
>
> > My hope is that you will acknowledge my apology as being sincere, and
that
> > you will apologize to me for the posts you have made to me and about me
> that
> > have indeed offended me, particularly the insults to permaculture, which
I
> > believe to be a valuable system for developing and demonstrating
> integrated
> > food systems.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andy Lee
>
>
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