03/27/2010

New Entry Summer Class!

Just the thing for those summer kids. This is what I'm going to be recommending: Spend summer vacation growing food. Importance of concept? Eliot Coleman: "Rediscovering the immutable value of the small farm, is the first step towards a new agriculture for the 21st century, and possibly a new world of the Twenty-first century".

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaDEBFq5HWI Try growing in Winter? email McKenzie Boehoelder, mboekholder@comteam.org
Mar 27, 2010 1:39:40 AM

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