quick answer: living soil and living farming communities. These two are the invaluable nuggets I gleaned from reading Wendel Berry. Michael Pollan in his recent post on the New York Times gives credit to Wendel Berry for bringing about transformed consciousness within North America about local, sustainable, viable food production, living systems. My friend Tom Philpott has been reporting pretty optimistically the interesting initiatives that the US Department of Agriculture is doing. Well, the North Americans had their presendial family, with clear lead from dear second lady Michele, to dig up the lawn and convert some of it into productive organic vegetable/fruit garden. Let’s take some cues from all these–pretty exciting times!
permaculture, sustainable agriculture, organic farming, homestays, volunteering, Nepal
