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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Permaculture - Farms for the Future
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:21:47 -0500

Debbie Mcdonald wrote:
Re Tommys post, I wonder do you all take this gardening to a spiritual level as regards the plant relationship with us, etc which is how I thought Tommy was leaning but? Is not this whole coming scenario a test that way anyway and not just a survival thing with who can grow the most food. I am sorry I was not here a year earlier etc etc etc;0

Hey, we're getting a little woo-woo here, don't you think? But count me in! I talk to plants all the time (bugs too), haven't been committed yet.

I agree that if we aren't taking our food cultivation efforts to "a spiritual level" we're just perpetuating the same failed system. And that maybe, just maybe, when the s**t comes down, the crisis could be a pathway to establishing a deeper, fuller relationship with the life system, as encountered in our backyards as we try to grow more of our own food there. Anyway, I can always dream.

~Harvey


--
Harvey in northern Virginia
www.themodernhomestead.us

The threat of nuclear weapons and man's ability to destroy the environment
are really alarming. And yet there are other almost imperceptible changes--I
am thinking of the exhaustion of our natural resources, and especially of
soil erosion--and these are perhaps more dangerous still, because once we
begin to feel their repercussions it will be too late. ~The Dalai Lama





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