Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Debbie Mcdonald <belynor@sbcglobal.net>]

Yes, you said it better:). Rocks too;)

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us> wrote:

> From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Permaculture - Farms for the Future
> To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
> <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 11:21 AM
> 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