TJ on money and banking

"No one has a natural right to the trade of a money lender, but he who has the money to lend. Let those then among us who have a moneyed capital and who prefer employing it in loans rather than otherwise, set up banks and give cash or national bills for the notes they discount. Perhaps, to encourage them, a larger interest than is legal in the other cases might be allowed them, on the condition of their lending for short periods only." --Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:277

http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/thomasjefferson/jeff1325.htm

http://famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/MoneyBanking.htm#INTRODUCTION:

magnesium

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http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/03/25/why-were-all-deficient-in-magnesium-the-many-signs-what-to-do/

Dorothy Day and Distributism

The only way to combat both the forces of big business and big government is with a society of owners, families who own their own property, workers who own their own businesses. Worker ownership is not only more respectful of the dignity of the person, but it produces goods of greater quality.

http://distributistreview.com/mag/2010/11/dorothy-day-and-distributism/

Carl Hasler on Wendell Berry, Distributism, and his discovery of G.K. Chesterton.

https://www.facebook.com/AmericanChestertonSociety/posts/10151731603587301?stream_ref=5

Same Land, Same Crops For 2000 Years

So here I am hoeing in my corn patch in the shadow of the mound and within easy walking distance of Bullhead’s place and what am I growing? Pole beans climb up the cornstalks and in the corn rows where the corn did not come up, I have planted squashes and pumpkins.

https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/same-land-same-crops-for-2000-years/

http://www.reneesgarden.com/articles/3sisters.html

From Farm to Front Door

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/olmstead/from-farm-to-front-door/

Groundhog Daikon Radish Cover Crop

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/Groundhog_Daikon_Radish_Cover_Crop_Seed/brassica_cover_crop

Growing Coffea Arabica at Home

https://www.sweetmarias.com/growingcoffeeathome.php

The garden yard [microform] : a handbook of intensive farming (1909)

https://archive.org/details/gardenyardhandbo00hall

https://archive.org/stream/gardenyardhandbo00hall#page/126/mode/2up

Bolton Hall

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Hall%2C+Bolton%2C+1854-1938%22

Companion Planting

http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html#GARLIC:

THE CLIFTON PARK SYSTEM OF FARMING and laying down land to grass

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010128elliot/010128toc.html

And in the cases previously alluded to, I am satisfied that a still better result would have been obtained had I, when first laying down the land in question, been acquainted with the deep-rooting chicory, burnet, and kidney vetch, and the advantage of using, from a vegetable-matter-creating point of view, a large amount of cocksfoot and yarrow.

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010128elliot/010128ch3.html 

Improved Inner Kaimrig Mixture. Cocksfoot, 10; Meadow Fescue, 5; Tall Fescue, 4; Tall Oat-like Grass, 3; Hard Fescue, 1; Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, 1; Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass, 1; Golden Oat Grass, 1/2; Italian Ryegrass, 3; White Clover, 2; Alsike Clover, 1; Late-flowering Red Clover, 2; Kidney Vetch, 2-1/2; Chicory, 3; Burnet, 8; Sheep's Parsley, 1; Yarrow, 1/2. Total, 48 lb. per acre.

...

During the summer of 1898 we had a severe drought, which showed conspicuously the advantage of using drought-resisting plants. I this year observed, what had before escaped my notice, the great drought-resisting power of the late-flowering red clover, which is particularly to be recommended for light soils, and I am now inclined to place it, as a drough-tresisting plant, on a level with chicory, burnet, and kidney vetch.

Wendell Berry’s Thoughts On ‘Our Only World’

The destruction of locally based household economies and the conversion of large numbers of small independent producers into entirely dependent consumers, for whom everything needed must be purchased (not cultivated), severs the link between people and the land.

http://planetsave.com/2015/03/07/wendell-berrys-thoughts-on-our-only-world/

Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1602399840/ref=nosim/cryptogoncom-20

Fighting Crop Insurance Cronyism

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/olmstead/fighting-crop-insurance-cronyism/

John Steuart Curry's "Parade to War" at The Cummer

Parade to War