Quote Originally Posted by ThisYouWillDo View Post
We could even use horse and cart a bit more, and use the additional manure to fertilise our vegetable gardens so we eat more fresh food and require less to be proceesed and packaged and transported to Supermarkets ... or am I just letting my imagination run wild now?
TYWD
Problem is, if you use a horse you have to have something to feed it. So a lot of your new garden is going to be used up by growing feed for the horse. If you have to buy the feed, then other farmland will be used to grow the feed, instead of growing food for people. Plus, horses are herbivores and, like any other herbivore, produce large quantities of methane. Adding to the problem rather than helping.