From The Ground Up. What is it? It’s a local initiative to stop the harmful practice of spreading toxic sludge on our farmland. What is toxic sludge? We’ll get to that. But first, why do I care about this? I was born and raised in the beautiful farmlands of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. My grandparents worked
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Years ago, I read Walden by Henry David Thoreau and I was struck with a longing to live like this. I too wanted to disappear into the woods I had always loved, to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential
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August becomes September, petals fall in the garden, and the trees prepare to shed their leaves. Our bodies and energy systems are feeling the changes in weather and in food. The fresh foods and light dinners of summer are giving way to warmer, slower foods. Cold and flu season is approaching. It’s a wonderful time for a gentle detox. My favorite way to do this is through tea.
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There is much that is outside of our control, but raising a garden is one small thing we can do to nourish the part of the world we live in right now, right here. The modern world seems to be ever-increasing in its speed and demands and disconnect. Perhaps growing a garden is one of the things that will counter this.
As Wendell Berry said, “A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world.”
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To keep track of these lives we live is not just a means of enriching our understanding… but a truly sacred work…Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it is to be human. – Frederich Buechner
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