Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Unfortunately, there's a wide gulf between sentimental daydreaming and hard
headed respect for the land and the web of life. Most farmers only
connection to the land has been to see how much they can get out of it -
and ending up getting nothing out of it. Growing for now and for the future
depends on knowledge of how it's been done for millennia and hard work to
improve in the here and now. 

To live on the land we have to give life back to the land. You can't get
more out of it than you put into it. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/16/2007 at 8:15 PM Sunny wrote:

>Beautifully said.
>Sunny
>Coldspring Log Furniture
>(936) 653-5737
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: bob@4agoodauction.com 
>  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org 
>  Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 2:50 PM
>  Subject: [Livingontheland] land
>
>
>  I applaud anyone's family for sustaining the responsibility that comes
>with owning land for 150 years. The connection with land is a bond that
>has as much nurturing love to it as a bond with any family member. To have
>the land sustains one is in many ways difficult to understand unless the
>experience has been your own. To become a true steward to the land, the
>care taker or the husband of the land and to receive what the land gives
>will quite naturally make one want to take care of, and to do what they
>feel is best for the land. Granted sometimes what is done to land turns
>out not to be the best thing. However, one's heart can and naturally
>wishes to do the best for the land and to sustain it. Land connects with
>the soul in you and begins a silent conversation like marriage or a
>relationship. It opens a whole new world to you. What defines the meaning
>of life becomes expanded, richer and grounded to the roots of  humanity on
>and with earth. It is not one way, you must listen and be more than a bit
>humble. Nature will then reveal herself and you will be in awe, astounded
>even. If earth chooses you to be a steward of her treasures you are the
>receiver of a great richness of the fabric of life. Bob C
>
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