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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>, Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the ways that best sustain the farmer/ Efficiency
  • Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:22:29 -0500

At 12:50 PM 12/27/2007, you wrote:
The quote about the Frontier being "the meeting point between savagery and civilization" brought to mind my recent study of the potager or kitchen garden.  The ancient cloister gardens - forerunners of the potager - were always walled to emphasize the separation between (God's) cultivated area and Nature's wilderness beyond.
 

Heheh, I think most of us assumed that they were walled to keep the predators out of them! But I like the metaphoric aspect as well.

On the other hand, I think part of humanity's problem with the world is that dichotomy between cultivation and wilderness--that being civilized means getting rid of the presumed savagery of the wilderness.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com



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