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Great Website March 19, 2004 Dear Editor: Don't Ruin Your Site February 29, 2004 Hey guys, your site has a wealth of practical information. Why not keep it that way and drop the slamming of religious and political ideology. My oasis, your site, is starting to read like the local commentaries found in a cheap paper. Please don't ruin this wonderful web site. Thanks GF. We've decided we're going to keep ruining it, G.F., but we'd be happy to tell you why. First of all, we disagree with you that our site is a "wealth of practical information". That's what we INTEND for it to be, after a lot of hard work, but right now, we're just getting started, and there's much, much more that we plan to add over the months and years ahead. So as much as you seem to like our pages, whatever they're "starting" to be is what they've been from the beginning. Funny you didn't notice, this being your oasis and all. In this column, we will discuss virtually any topic that our readers choose to write about. Differing views don't upset us. We have had a few letters that we didn't print because they were just plain incoherent, or because they railed on attacking us for positions that no-one here had taken in the first place, but given that qualification we want to have fun with this endeavor, and that means being open in our words and thoughts. In short, we want to be used for reference, but we have no aspirations to being an encyclopedia. We want to write from the standpoint of who we are, as if we were speaking to friends, and not have to sanitize every statement to avoid stepping on someone's ideological toes. There are homestead-oriented websites of all kinds available at your fingertips. We don't feel any compulsion, or any desire, to appeal to everyone, so if you read something here that you don't like, you can simply scroll down to something else or, and we mean this in the very nicest way, go someplace else. Specifics, Please February 7, 2004 I would love to learn more details from Kristen Embry about her goat-milk soap. Thanks ,Terri We forwarded your letter to Kristen, Terri, and she told us that she put everything she could think of into the article. She urges you to write her directly with specific questions. Other readers might wish to remember that general questions are frequently too general. Let us know what you want to learn. Organic Certification February 4, 2004 I believe a group of rich people, while sitting around having drinks, came up with a way to make their rich friends even richer. What was their idea? Organic Certification. They had a law passed that allowed their friends in power to charge organic gardeners a fee to call our produce organic. Even better then that, now they can tell you who you can buy your seeds and supplies from. I don’t know what you think about this but I would like to hear. Andrew King andrew.king2@worldnet.att.net We confess ignorance, Andrew. On it's face, Organic Certification seems like a good thing, but how is it to be defined, and enforced? We'd like to hear from our readers about their experiences and opinions. If you have knowledgeable opinions you'd like to share, send them to: LettersEditor@Homestead.org
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