Don't forget that someday you might want to consider a greenhouse (or grow inside your house, until you outgrow that plot, at least), which makes all year potentially “in season” for vegetables. Also, don't be afraid to try fruits sometime, especially small fruits, easy to include with vegetables.

Your comment about “monoculture” is of note not because it is often used by activists as an epithet or pejorative (by the same idiots who behave strangely and hype the idea and word “biodiversity,” you will notice). In addition to soil depletion concerns, with “monoculture” you also are creating the Mother Lode for pests who roam the world looking for plants they prefer, and who come upon the “monocultured” plot.

Unfortunately, with “cap and trade,” it's not just a bunch of idiots engaging in a scam (from which it would not be a surprise to learn some of them were profiting as insiders, among the middlemen or intermediaries). It's also energy rationing, which is sinister to truly evil, depending on their motives.

Sadly, this also routinely taints the issue of agriculture and agricultural policy in this nation, rather than this subject being kept rational and sane (ending subsidies and federal intrusion into agriculture). (The more wacky or sinister people actually have conceived of a totalitarian term and concept, “food policy,” encompassing everything from personal diet choices to agriculture to a command and control economy of food.)

There's still ridiculous behavior behind anti-factory-farming activism (too much of it is silly to sinister anti-business drivel or worse) but the issues of quality of the product as well as resource use (not so much energy use but land and water use, for example) are relevent.

Any number of mild (better than wild) activist works or vegetarianism-vegan or animal-rights works will raise these concerns. That includes the classics, like the $6.99 paperback copy of “Diet for a Small Planet” by Lappe' that's in my truck cab right now for whenever I next stop on my next outing on the road.

When it comes to factory farming, remember, it wasn't so long ago that most Americans lived rural lives and grew up farming. The change to factory farming happened quite fast, and now most Americans don't even know where their food comes from, how it is made, or the associated consequences. I'm guessing lots of folks are content to imagine it all begins and ends in the supermarket, and I'm sure that narrowness of vision is just fine with other folks..

This whole AGW boondoggle would be funny in a Monty Python Silly Walks kind of way except they are using it to seize power over the US and world economy and hand it to a bunch of socialist clowns. And the big money has barely showed up at the table. Wait until we start paying trillions in reparations to the Zimbabwes of the world to atone for our guilt in running up the “climate debt”.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.

No matter what the state-sponsored scientists and media lapdogs say, I remain steadily against the “global warming” argument. Irresponsible agriculture does have an effect on the envrionment (Dust bowl, etc); but the global cycle is now in cooling mode. We can, indeed, negatively effect our own environments; but to propose that cow farts somehow make the icecaps melt is proposterous. I can't believe intellectuals are actually swallowing this pill without doing their OWN research on it. Kool-aid drinking sheep.