Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>]

The good and the bad in one basket.  That was the era.
 We knew that there was something wrong with what we
had been told about the world, about businesses,
pollution (remember "Silent Spring") and communities
and each other and our races so we flew out as a
generation and left behind all the rules, tried to do
*everything* different.  Yes 'sex, drugs and rock and
roll' were all a part of that and were amongst the
first real limits that hit us all.  Right after paying
the rent :)

Many of these communes turned their hands to growing
food, the teeny beginnings of our organic local food
movement. In fact, some of those people became very
successful growing organic seed for sale and now have
founded the Bioneers movement. Some concentrated on
making their communities stay together and these
people now are driving the Intentional Communities
movement.  While most of those older communes fell
apart, their lessons stayed with some of us.  As did
the lessons from the communes that lived a long time,
like my friends at Downhill Farms, and the ones still
in existence.  Much of these experiences can be found
in books like "Creating a Life Together" by Diane Leaf
Christian

Many of the catchphrases of the time are our rally
cries today.  Audre Lorde said "When I dare to be
powerful - to use my strength in the service of my
vision, then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid."  It was she who coined the
phrase we live with, to "Be the change you wish to
see".  

Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird, Pt. 1, Ch. 11
(1960) wrote "I wanted you to see what real courage
is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man
with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're
licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see
it through no matter what."
John Trudell - Biography

John Trudell "My goal is very simple. To communicate
the human experience at a level that human beings can
recognize and relate to. That may be a personal
statement. It may be a political statement. But
whatever it is, it all comes from the same point of
reference: the experiences we share as peoples of this
planet." 

We have older inspirations than these and these people
had been inspired by others. Tolkein, William Morris
and the like were predecessors that got reference in
our wild days.

I have to say that right or wrong then, hippies
insrpired the large part of all that is good and
growing today.  At least from my perspective.

Yours, Pego

<<Santa Fe, Chris Wells has a song that goes, "They
say it was about sex and drugs. I say it was about
compassion, consciousness and love, love for the
Earth...Marty>>


<<Not all of us lived in Haight-Ashbury, or in
California.  I was going to college at the time.  The
rent on the commune wasn't free.  We had to pay the
rent with jobs.  We had to eat because we didn't get
free handouts of food.  We did, however, feed those
who didn't have food when it came up. Gloria>>




 
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