James Bassett

Years ago, maybe '70s or '80s, an ad ran in Mother Earth News magazine for a kind of dress/wrap that could be worn in several ways. You could dress it up or dress it down, just by wearing it in different ways. There was something timeless in the look that made me think that it would never go "out of style." I'd think that that kind of design, along with durable fabric, would make clothes last a long time.

Would love to find that ad again!

Hi Acadia,

I just started reading Growing Good Food."  I'm loving it!  It's enlightening, empowering, and fun to read.  I really enjoy your literary style.  Thank you for writing it : )  Your Perennial Foods is next on my reading list.

James B.

Someone in the thread already mentioned terror, the concept that soil can influence the flavor of wine.  The folks at Leaping Frog winery note that drip irrigation encourages shallow rooting in grape vines.  This, they say, produces a less complex flavor than if the vines are encouraged to grow deeper roots that pass though more mineral layers on their way to finding water.

A Wall Street Journal article reported on a study that correlated flavor with nutrition.  Albert Howard may have been right when he suggested that healthy soil leads to healthy plants and ultimately to healthy people.