4—Lancatter Farming, Saturday. April 20. 1974
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ORGANIC LIVING
By
Robert Rodole
IS THERE HOPE FOR CITY DWELLERS?
Where will you ride out the storm if predicted ecological
and economic upheavals occur? If you’re a city dweller,
you’re going to have two strikes against you right at the start,
in an age of continual shortages and crises.
Cities aren’t the healthiest places to live, even in the best of
tiroes. The stress of crowded urban conditions may be
causing actual physical changes in man, reports Australian
physician Fess Groenestein. City dwellers have abnormally
enlarged adrenal glands, compared with rural residents, he
has discovered.
Other urban hazards such as air pollution, lead poisoning
and crime are more obvious. Loss of hearing by children
subjected to constant urban noise is still another way cities
injure their inhabitants, -says Dr. Robert Aldrich of the
University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver.
“We must not allow children to live in cities which are
machines for producing pathology,” he told an American
Academy of Pediatrics meeting last year.
Housewives who live on the upper floors of high-rise
apartment buildings are more prone to mental ills, and their
children suffer more respiratory and circulatory ailments,
says Dr. Dietrich Oeter of Hamburg, Germany. He calls the
problem “upper-floor illness.”
Even reasonably healthy urbanites may find themselves in
a more severe bind than rural folks if severe economic
shortages develop. They have no land on which to grow their
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own food. They must depend on a delicately interrelated,
gasoline-fueled distribution system to satisfy basic needs.
Everyone depends on “the system” to some extent, but city
people are totally dependent.
Possible shortages of chlorine for municipal drinking
water purification have already driven home this point with
an urgency no country person with a spring-fed or deep well
can fully appreciate. Any community might be affected, but
“the shortage would be most detrimental to our cities,”
warned Senator Philip Hart. He said Detroit, Denver and
New York were among cities “down to a few hours supply” of
chlorine at critical times in 1973.
For the vast majority of employed city people, excape to
the countryside is no longer practical. Gasoline shortages
may spur a migration back into cities instead, as subur
banites try to get closer to their jobs. Fortunately there are
some steps individuals can take now to make their city
lifestyle more satisfying and pleasant:
1. Eat a simpler, more natural diet of whole, unprocessed
foods. “Internal pollution” is something we can control, by
cutting back on additive-laden foods, refined starches and
sugar. Food supplements and vitamins can also help our
systems withstand the onslaughts of external pollution.
2. Stock up on natural foods that can be stored easily. Dried
beans, brown rice, seeds, nuts and wholemeal flour are all
healthful foods that will go a long way in a pinch. Try to have
a month’s supply on hand at all times. That way you’ll be
prepared for any short-term shortages or inconveniences.
New Book on Fanning
Terraces
Better ways of fanning
terraced land is the subject
of a newly-revised
publication of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The 16-page illustrated
booklet, “Farming Terraced
Land,” was revised by the
Soil Conservation Service in
response to farmers’
demand for up-to-date in
formation.
The publication gives
advice on how to use a two
way plow on both parallel
and nonparallel terraces;
four methods of using a one
' way plow; using Other tillage
implements on terraces;
planting row crops on
parallel or nonparallel
terraces, and harvesting
hay, other close-sown crops,
and row crops. Photographs
and illustrations show how to
do it.
Single copies of “Farming
Terraced Land,” Leaflet 335
are available from the Office
of Communication, U. S.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. 20250
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When an alder tree is cut,
its wood turns from white
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Don’t stockpile the food. Keep using It snd replacing It with a
fresh reserve. . . ,
3 Consume less and recycle more. A rooftop onwindowbox
garden may be Just a token step toward self-sufficiency, but
it is a step In the right direction. You can always sprout soy,
wheat, mung, alfalfa and other seeds and beans under the
kitchen sink for a supply of high-nutrient, “homegrown”
food.
4. Exercise more. Walking and bicycling are fast becoming
the most efficient ways to get around in some center city
areas. And neither contributes to pollution, or uses fossil-fuel
energy*
5. Support environmental measures that will improve the
quality of city life over the long run. In central London,
winter sunshine has increased by 70 percent since 1962 as a
result of smoke control legislation.
6. Get to know your neighbors. Exchanging special skills or
services could help keep budgets intact if inflation really gets
out of hand. Food co-ops, where members pool their orders
and buy direct from growers at a discount, is another
possibility for those willing to work together.
7. Try fitting a “country craft” into your city lifestyle.
Weaving and spinning are just two of many newly-popular
activities that offer productive and recreational value.
There’s even a compact 38-inch floor model loom that’s
specially recommended for apartment dwellers. Other crafts
could be equally attractive and feasible, if you take time to
investigate.
Making the cities truly liveable is “the ultimate organic
challenge,” says Jim Punkre, an advertising copywriter who
left a snug rural homestead to move into the core of a
medium-sized Eastern city. “Many of us are returning,” he
says. “We are attempting to prove that man can indeed live
in harmony with nature and other men.”
Whether you live in the city or the country, there are steps
you can take to improve your diet. “The Prevention System
for Better Health” is a 46-page guide to food sources of im
portant vitamins and minerals. It’s available for fifty cents
from Robert Rodale, Organic Living, in care of this
newspaper. Be sure to ask for the booklet by name and please
allow at least three weeks for delivery.
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