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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

I thought of all of you tonight when on A Prairie Home Companion, I heard 
Garrison Keillor say:

"We feed the baby garlic, so we can find 'm in the dark."
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> . . . I think a person's health is somehow tied to their place and it is 
> most healthful to eat the products of that place.
>
> "Whoa, Nellie" - I don't know where mine is,
> but did you read Wendell Berry's view on
> *place* as in "my place" (his) "in the world"
> (where his home/family lived/lives and the
> great majority of Americans *don't* any more) ??

I've read most of Berry's stuff and I understand his psychological feelings 
about place, but I meant eating foods grown in the soil, fed by the water, 
air and sun of a particular piece of Earth is perhaps most salubrious to 
health. It would seem to have some logic that Nature nurtures the denizens 
of a certain place in a certain way. Of course there are some cautions, 
like too much selenium, or none, in the soil of a place.

Not that I am about to give up cashews or coffee.

Here's a quote from a bio of Berry:

"Berry is the fifth generation of his father's family and the sixth of his 
mother's to farm in Henry County, in the neighborhood of Port Royal" (8). 
Although his wife, formerly Tanya Amyx, lived in the city all her life, she 
and her husband raised their two children, Mary Dee and Pryor (Den) 
Clifford, on the farm. In the article "Wendell Berry, A Kentucky Writer 
Tries to Strengthen the Ties Between Man and the Land," Wooley discusses 
Berry's farm life. Berry did not initially intend to live on this farm but 
intended to use it as a vacation place.

http://www.english.eku.edu/SERVICES/KYLIT/BERRY.HTM