Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

"What more than you have so far learned will you need to know in order to
live at home? (I
don't mean "home" as a house for sale.) If you decide, or if you are
required by
circumstances, to live all your life in one place, what will you need to
know about it and about
yourself? At present our economy and society are founded on the assumption
that energy will
always be unlimited and cheap; but what will you have to learn to live in a
world in which
energy is limited and expensive? What will you have to know – and know
how to do – when
your community can no longer be supplied by cheap transportation? Will you
be satisfied to
live in a world owned or controlled by a few great corporations? If not,
would you consider
the alternative: self-employment in a small local enterprise owned by you,
offering honest
goods or services to your neighbors and responsible stewardship to your
community?"

-- from a may 2007 commencement address by Wendell Berry
http://www.bellarmine.edu/studentaffairs/Graduation/berry_address.asp