tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post3562525899208645656..comments2024-03-28T16:31:23.093-07:00Comments on Books in Northport: The Land Beneath Our Feet, Part IP. J. Grathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-66289492456277655512010-11-17T15:38:26.440-08:002010-11-17T15:38:26.440-08:00Are you teasing me, Gerry? A farmer customer, and ...Are you teasing me, Gerry? A farmer customer, and you don't tell me his name? Hard to sell books, weed vegetable garden and keep foxes out of the henhouse when the farm and the bookstore are many miles apart. Now my friend Mary in the U.P. has her bookstore a short walk from her house, and that works great. Time will tell.P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-46952691791816651202010-11-17T14:45:29.591-08:002010-11-17T14:45:29.591-08:00One of your farmer customers was over here on my s...One of your farmer customers was over here on my side of the Bay on Monday. He would argue, from purely selfish motives if no others, that your inner farmer could perfectly well continue to sell books . . .Gerryhttp://torchlakeviews.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-78945020595060365352010-11-17T13:30:06.801-08:002010-11-17T13:30:06.801-08:00Doing accomplishes so much more than debating! Tha...Doing accomplishes so much more than debating! Thank you, Gerry, for sending just the kind of story I love. I really need to retire from bookselling one of these days so my inner farmer can come out into the open air....P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-47384475892437269292010-11-17T08:28:44.664-08:002010-11-17T08:28:44.664-08:00This post generates so many thoughts that I hardly...This post generates so many thoughts that I hardly know how to organize them, so I'll pull just one from the flood. Rob the Firefighter tells me of a community garden in Detroit that is rebuilding the soil of a city block-sized "urban farm." The people who are doing this, and keeping on doing it in spite of the dismissiveness of others, do not waste their time debating the value of their project. They simply point out that the farm is feeding 200 people every year. Then they go back to work.Gerryhttp://torchlakeviews.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com