Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

"Our 21st Century Homestead" is in the Dec/Jan issue of Mother Earth 
News, the current entry in MEN's "Firsthand Reports" (a sort of "story 
of our homestead" feature). It's a brief overview of our twenty-some 
years at Boxwood, and what Ellen & I are trying to do here.

The piece introduces a new department in MEN on "21st Century 
Homesteading." I expect to be contributing pieces for the series over 
the next couple of years. The first, on the ills of the industrial food 
system and the homestead alternatives, will be in the next issue, and 
pieces on soil ecology and soil care practices will follow in the two 
after that.

The series grew out of the handout I wrote for my presentation at PASA 
(Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture) early this year, 
"Achieving Food Independence on the Modern Homestead." That piece itself 
is currently running in three installments in Countryside Magazine.

~Harvey in northern VA
www.themodernhomestead.us