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There Is Life In the Ground

Posted on October 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seed; and also, when it is stirred up, goes into the person who stirs it.

~Charles Dudley Warner~

I aspire to be more than just a passive "consumer".   In fact, I want to be actively engaged in the business of living.   My passion for food production gardening is very much rooted in this desire to live in closer connection and contact with the sources of my material life.   Working to grow our food and then laboring to prepare it, makes all of it much more nourishing than the sum of it's nutrients and calories alone.                                    

 

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3 Comments

Reply Daphne
10:28 AM on October 18, 2009 
For me I think it is being closer to nature that is my primary reason to garden. It gives me such great joy to participate in the sprouting of a seed or to watch the bees do their work. I suppose foraging would be closer to nature than forcing plants to grow where you plant them, but I like to participate. It also lets me harness that mothering nature I have now that my kids are out of the house.
Reply hsheather
10:42 AM on October 21, 2009 
I couldn't agree more.
Reply Sustainable Eats
12:51 AM on November 03, 2009 
Agree - you are nourishing your soul as well. Not easily done in this day and age!