2022-10-16
I guess that this title was one of the most memorable quotes from the BBC's Gardener's Question Time, and probably the most insightful. Not being a gardener, I never deliberately listened to that programme, but nonetheless the quote has embedded itself firmly in my psyche. Why? Well, isn't it a simply outstandingly obvious truth?
You want better plants? Firstly, cultivate better soil.
So why do farmers persist with using artificial fertilisers on exhausted farmland to compensate for poor soil conditions?
Charles Eisenstein writing for The Defender (Children's Health Defense) reports from the heartland of US farming, Kansas.
The collapse of the land's fertility led to the collapse of the communities that lived there.
"I got the impression that the heartland is like a supersaturated solution ready for a phase transition. A mote of dust, a small vibration touches the solution and it instantly crystallizes"
"People are so primed for transformation that a mere two days of non-ordinary fellowship can be life-changing"
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