Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Spiritual level? The best way to connect with the land is to get your hands 
in the dirt.

Myself, I don't talk to plants. I just try to give them all they need to be 
happy  ... however I do believe they talk to each other through subtle 
biochemical signals.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/18/2010 at 12:21 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>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
>