Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer’s most precious asset. A farmer’s productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
Agriculture is not farming. It’s feeding. A farm is the application form for a farmer to work for the earth. Farming is intrinsically about sustaining land, family, and community. “What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food”- Bryant Terry.
The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms. He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, it largely increases the product. It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy.
Sometimes, the soil must value the value of the seed. When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste! If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
It is only when man cultivates humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered, human values can grow only in a spiritual soil. If a man wants to cultivate human values, he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart, water it with love so that human values will grow. ''Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women''-Albert Howard.
A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. Strong communities are built around local, real food. We trust food to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.
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