Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

On 08/13/2010 02:36 AM, mdnagel@verizon.net wrote:
> I think that it's perfectly noble to use the term "sustainable," that 
> this word implies that we're looking to keep things alive 
> indefinitely, whereas the corporate world can in no way manipulate 
> this word to fit what they are doing.
>
>
> -Mark

Not so fast, amigo--haven't you heard those "advertisements" on 
no-advertisements-NPR: "Monsanto, committed to sustainable agriculture"?!

But basically I agree with you: I use the term "sustainable" a lot more 
than "organic" these days to imply a true alternative to dominant 
agricultural practices.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air 
and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within 
the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water 
into wine--which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater 
and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is 
turned into grapes.  ~Wendell Berry