Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

Thanks Paul. You do your homework.

Green Teacher magazine is a great resource for communities. The  
editors are as dedicated to good ecology as any of us are. Worth  
checking out.  http://www.greenteacher.com/

Marty
On Apr 10, 2007, at 3:55 PM, TradingPostPaul wrote:

> All Species Projects by Marty Kraft
>         
> All Species projects build a sense of community while  
> reestablishing our
> connection to the natural world.
>
> GARY SNYDER TELLS in his book "The Practice of the Wild" about  
> riding in a
> pickup truck in Australia with an aborigine. As they were traveling  
> along,
> the man was telling stories at an amazing pace, too fast for them  
> to be
> told properly. Snyder wondered why he would do such a thing. It  
> seems that
> the important knowledge of the man's tribe is recited as the tribe  
> moves
> along in the bush. Each feature of the landscape relates to a specific
> story or part of a story. At the speed of a moving pickup, of  
> course, the
> stories had to be told faster.
>
> What does this say about the relationship between this man, his  
> tribe and
> the land they inhabit or that inhabits them? What happens to the  
> 10,000
> years of knowledge of the land if these people are moved off those  
> lands?
> What is the role that the land plays in support of a sense of  
> community for
> these people? What happens to the stabilizing effect of land and  
> community
> on people when these connections are broken?
>
> full article at
> http://www.allspecies.org/ideas/greenteach.htm
>
>
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