Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

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