Dirt

To much is taken for granite when you step on the earth, due to our specie much of it is gone into the ocean: not to be tilled again-besides the fish don’t want it.

I can go buy onions cheaper than I can grow them, but when did price start dictating value? So, recently I gathered plants for my grandkids from Grand Saline to transplant into the garden out of the hotbeds. I thought it would just be a time filler for the “virtual generation”, but low and behold-they got into it and could have gone longer had I not petered out.

Top soil-it’s non-renewable! According to Wes Jackson form the Land Institute, the loss of top soil threatens our food supply more than any other factor. It’s as renewable as oil, like ever million or two years you get yourself a little-just a little!

So, be a hero: skip cheap food, plant something, dump in the woods, compost your garbage, teach your grandkids how to plant a few seeds everyday during a season and watch them progress according to Mystery, do it damn it while stuff still germinates on schedule!

Like a lovely Mexican artist in my seminary class said, ” grandmother says what is wrong with many peoples is they don’t take their shoes off and walk bare footed in the dirt when they feel down.”

There is something centering about burying your hands in the soil and getting your nose .5 inches above the surface, you can smell millions of years of preparation….

Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry are getting up in years, but it seems they have some young folk following in their furrows.

Praise Be