From MARCIEROSE@aol.comSun Aug 20 22:34:27 1995
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 14:03:41 -0400
From: MARCIEROSE@aol.com
To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Jerky

J. Hasket wrote:

"even with intesive production the amount of food that can be produced is
small comapared with the full nutritional needs of a family" and..."I also
don't see any significant unique psychological change as a result of growing
one's own food.  There are a lot of jerks who grow gardens."

In both instances he is wrong.

It is possible to produce a high percentage of a family's nutritional needs.
(Jeavon's - How to Grow More Vegetables...; Hunt and Boertz - High Yield
Gardening; Coleman - Four season Harvest)

Secondly, apparently, not all of them grow gardens.

Marcie