"If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic."
"Going organic is the single most critical (and most DOABLE) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis. Every acre of ground that's farmed organically has the potential to pull thousands of pounds of warming greenhouse gases out of our air."
"Organic farming is a real, attainable solution to our current global climate crisis! Organic farming can actually remove greenhouse gases from the air - helping to reverse the climate crisis!"
"Organic living can stop the climate crisis. When you combine the impact of protecting the beneficial mycorrhizal fungi in the soil (which absorb and neutralize carbon) and eliminating all the toxic chemicals (and their packaging and the energy spent producing them), the carbon problem in our atmosphere is practically solved. We still need more renewable energy, but restoring the earth's ability to sequester carbon is a good place to start. And you'll do it while eating."
-Maria Rodale, Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
I stand looking from the kitchen window - in our garden, green and lush after the winter rain, birds singing. Behind the wall, an unoccupied house. We see the neighbours twice a year, when they come to spray 'weed' killer. Now their 'winter snow' is russet and gold. No birds sing there, but we see egrets feeding, and wish we could explain to them ...
Great Blog! The Rodale Institute is actally not far at all from my house. Spent some time up there last summer and really need to get back this summer.
Incidently we usually spend our summers in Hendersonville, so I know your neck of the woods quite well. Absolutly wonderful area and hopefully one day I can move there full time!
Sometimes the most radical step you can take is a step backwards. ~unknown
AN URBAN PLOT or how to grow food and change the world one city lot at a time.
Chronicles one gardener's quest to produce organic food for her family, the adventures of a new way of thinking about lawns and yards, and an exploration of urban self-sufficiency and homesteading in the city.
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. ~Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666
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The destiny of countries depends on the way they feed themselves. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 19th century French gastronome-philosopher
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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. ~Charles Dudley Warner, author, editor, publisher (1829 - 1900)
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank
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You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown
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Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens
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Yes and organic feeds and heals us in a way that chemical cannot -
I stand looking from the kitchen window - in our garden, green and lush after the winter rain, birds singing. Behind the wall, an unoccupied house. We see the neighbours twice a year, when they come to spray 'weed' killer. Now their 'winter snow' is russet and gold. No birds sing there, but we see egrets feeding, and wish we could explain to them ...
There are more and more of us traveling the organic, ecological path, all over the world.
Great Blog! The Rodale Institute is actally not far at all from my house. Spent some time up there last summer and really need to get back this summer.
Incidently we usually spend our summers in Hendersonville, so I know your neck of the woods quite well. Absolutly wonderful area and hopefully one day I can move there full time!
yes, natural foods are only gives good life to people.
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