Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

"Modern American culture is fairly empty of any suggestion that one's
relationship to the land, to consumption and food, is a religious matter.
But
it's true; the decision to attend to the health of one's habitat and food
chain is a spiritual choice. It's also a political choice, a scientific
one, a
personal and a convivial one. It's not a choice between living in the
country
or the town; it is about understanding that every one of us, at the level
of
our cells and respiration, lives in the country and is thus obliged to be
mindful of the distance between ourselves and our sustenance."

The Nation, Nov 3, 2003 v277 i14 p11.
Title:  A good farmer.(Articles)
Author:  Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver wrote the foreword to The Essential Agrarian Reader: The
Future of Culture, Community, and the Land (edited by Norman Wirzba and
just
published by the University of Kentucky Press), from which this is adapted.
Her eleven published books include The Poisonwood Bible (HarperCollins)
and,
most recently, Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands (National Geographic
Society).