From: Lane Anderson <anderso...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Sustainable Agriculture and Horticulture, Ed Keller's Article
To: let...@newspress.com
Cc: voi...@newspress.com, news@newspress..com
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 3:24 PM
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Dear Editor,
Professor Keller presents good history of agriculture and horticulture but left out is Rodale, the family, institute and foundation that haver perpetuated really an old, tried and true model of sustainable horticulture/agriculture in an era of "pop" fads.
Rodale published "Organic Gardening" before it was a new concept and additionally published and promoted the Regenerative Agriculture Association, "New Farm Magazine" and other models of both horticulture and agriculture. You can find many of the techniques of Rodale and "Organic Gardening" taught and presented as new ideas in permaculture and transition agriculture, but in Pennsylvania there are folks that never stopped doing it that way. Santa Barbara's Mesa has had a revival of these old methods in their neighborhood exchanges (www.sbfoodnotlawns.org) and in the fossil free landscaping movement emanating from Owen Dell on the Mesa.
Yours Truly, Lane Anderson,
Shoreline Village Marina,
Long Beach, California
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Historian Howard Zinn
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