HIGH YIELDS AND HIGHER HOPES

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On a smaller scale, a family of the same size working toward food self-sufficiency alone could use b/F intensive techniques to raise their entire annual food needs on just 10,000 square feet of soil—less than a quarter of an acre—by working just one or two hours a day during a six-month season!

Such stunning efficiencies, of course, cannot be accomplished overnight. Most soils require considerable improvement (a gradual process that can take up to five years), and would be mini-farmers must give themselves enough time to develop both an intimate understanding of the concepts involved and a familiarity with the skills required to produce successful harvests.

Nevertheless, the potential value of biodynamic/French intensive agriculture—for individuals, homesteading families, communities, and (perhaps most important) Third World countries now struggling desperately to feed their citizens—clearly overrides the relatively insignificant investment of time and effort that's initially required.

AND A FINAL NOTE

Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula is now eagerly entering its fifth year of exploration into the wonders of biodynamic/ French intensive agriculture. We hope that many of you, too, will recognize the importance and possible worldwide impact of the system, and begin similar experiments of your own. With a little patience and work, you'll soon see for yourself what the method can produce: high yields for you and your family . . . and even higher hopes for Planet Earth and its people!

PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM ECOLOGY ACTION OF THE MIDPENINSULA

A complete, 77-page manual explaining the "nuts and bolts" of biodynamic/French intensive techniques, entitled How To Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine (reviewed in MOTHER NO. 29's "Access" column), is available direct from Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula (2225 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, Calif. 93406). The price of the book, for folks in the U.S. or Canada, is $4.00 postpaid (California residents must add 24¢ state sales tax) or $5.00 for airmail. Anyone outside the U.S. or Canada should send $6.00 in American currency.

Ecology Action will soon be releasing the first in a five-part series of technical research reports on biodynamic/French intensive agriculture. If you're interested, send us your name and address and we'll mail you an order form as each installment becomes available.

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