Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Well said. Unfortunately it's our overeducated, overpoliticized agriculture
experts who've led us down the road to ruin with disastrous solutions. And
as Barb would say, be careful what you wish for - you might get it. They
wished for money, for high production at the lowest labor cost, for
megafarms to need giant tractors and tons of fossil fuel, for hybrid seed
to line the pockets of seed cartels. They got it. 

The task before us is to save our soil and water and our health, one farm,
one garden at a time. We don't begin by attacking the system but by
evolving ourselves. Fukuoka said the object of growing is not in the plants
but the perfection of the grower. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/4/2007 at 3:21 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>Taking this thought in a slightly different direction: Being intelligent 
>(and we could throw in well-educated) is no guarantee that one will "get 
>it right" where the Big Questions are concerned. The vast majority of 
>people these days grow up completely divorced from the growth of food, 
>therefore they cannot possibly think correctly about critical issues of 
>agriculture, soil loss, runoff pollution, food quality, on and 
>on--however intelligent they are. Indeed, I will hazard the statement 
>that, so long as one is estranged from the realities of food production 
>and the natural systems in which it takes place, then the *more* 
>intelligent one is, the more likely one will come up with 
>well-intentioned but disastrous solutions to the manifest problems 
>deriving from a misguided and polluting agriculture.
>
>~Harvey
>
>-- 
>Harvey in northern Va
>www.themodernhomestead.us
>
>"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." 
>~Wendell Berry
>