Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

 Soil loss. . .is a problem that embarrasses all of our technological 
pretensions. If soil were all being lost in a huge slab somewhere, that 
would appeal to the would-be heroes of “science and technology,” who 
might conceivably engineer a glamorous, large, and speedy 
solution—however many new problems they might cause in doing so. But 
soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is 
lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of 
millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic 
technology but only by millions of small acts and restraints, 
conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is 
ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural 
solutions. ~Wendell Berry

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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that 
people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, 
will be treated as garbage.  ~Wendell Berry