Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

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