Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Laurie Ann Powell <laurie@powellclan.com>]

My guess, Paul, is that the real misconception is the Western idea that behavior can be "taught" or "learned" from books, tapes, seminars or phone calls, and then acted on.

Modeling, live-in apprenticeships, and daily life are the only ways that "work" for any skill that requires applying knowledge in a physical way.

Which is why we live among a generation of people who only know how to teach or learn - but not know how to DO anything they teach or learn. 12 years of public education prepares you to be a teacher, student,  factory worker or a couch potato. Not a farmer. Farming with a farmer teaches you to be a farmer.

So, it's not that I don't want to do no-till or send out my soil sample or remediate my pasture. But only what I learned living at Carrie's house and doing her chores with her seems to really get done at my house! 

Laurie Ann