Posted on 05/15/2025 9:24:08 AM PDT by george76
Read Ancient Rome: How it Affects Us Today by Richard Maybury.
"Ancient Rome" discusses what happens when higher law principles and a free market economy are ignored. Mr. Maybury uses historical events to explain current events, including the wars in the former Soviet Empire, and the legal and economic problems of America today. Is your government making the same choices that led to the fall of Ancient Rome? Will history repeat?
Romans roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at the air…
We planted hybrids
Shame on me for not remembering the exact type.
I have 2 +- 30 year old American Chestnuts that do well … when the squirrels don’t beat us to them..
A neighboring farm has 12 ea 60 year old American chestnuts (no blight) huge trees. His other 20 acres are grapes, apples and open space. His best profit is from his chestnuts. We live in California foothills 2 hrs from the Bay Area. Very popular crop with the Asians.
I have a good publication a friend gave me on growing chestnuts + history I wish I could post here. I think blight problems are for areas of the country that have large populations. Here they are more scattered out here. Our plan is to plant several on the upper parts of the property along wooded area for the future beings.
Good publication if interested (18 pages) history, charts etc
https://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/chestnut/breeding/planting/chestnut-culture-in-california
Slavery, wealth concentration, and the destruction of the rural free holding middle class weakened them.
The unending flow of free slave labor and consequently no free mass market removed any impetus for financial or mechanical/industrial innovation.
The Roman oligarchy destroyed Rome the minute Roman virtue became a punch line. At that point their indolence and deviancy condemned them to the first vigorous race who came along.
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