http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/23/a-visit-to-mr-wemmicks/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:10:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/23/a-visit-to-mr-wemmicks/comment-page-1/#comment-51568 Jason Sanders Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:27:30 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/23/a-visit-to-mr-wemmicks/#comment-51568 <p>Yes, the Victorians didn't have cheap oil, didn't have giant supermarkets and warehouse stores, so they were far more self reliant than we. I read somewhere in a late Victorian agricultural magazine about how an experiment had been conducted with 2 men weeing over time on a plot of land, with measurements made; they discovered that they could provide all the nitrogen required by the plants there. So they were less squeamish than us too!</p> Yes, the Victorians didn’t have cheap oil, didn’t have giant supermarkets and warehouse stores, so they were far more self reliant than we. I read somewhere in a late Victorian agricultural magazine about how an experiment had been conducted with 2 men weeing over time on a plot of land, with measurements made; they discovered that they could provide all the nitrogen required by the plants there. So they were less squeamish than us too!

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