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PeteBlose wrote

Great article. I am making plans to do something similar.

Mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia has left many thousands of acres of land totally barren. Currently, some of this land is used for rotational grazing and there have been some minimal efforts to reforest with native species. I plan to do much more.

I would like to take a small site of no more than a few hundred acres and transform it into an organic farm. It would be an environmental oasis in the midst of a tragic landscape; an American Findhorn; a Sietch Tabr.

Anyone who knows anything about surface mining will dismiss this idea outright. Surface mining often results in various forms of pollution including heavy metals. But I have a plan. It can be done. The question is how long will it take, how much will it cost; and who will show up.

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