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Thanks, Rich, for sending over this article on sewage sludge and what it has done to farmland and the food grown on it. Here is the link: wsj.com/articles/maine-farmers-dump-milk-lose-crops-as-forever-chemicals-taint-soil-11656932400 (Note: it looks like some web…

Back when I was a lot less healthy, I was significantly more sensitive to the rhythms of the sun. On December 22 I would “wake up” from my slow autumn decline toward a…

Anyone who farms or gardens is probably thinking about slugs right now. And even though Jack and I read a delightful book about a woman who recovered from a serious illness by having…

“…cooperation is not a matter of following a blueprint -J Krishnamurti …laid down by the State, by the leader of a party or a group, or by any other authority….” Laurie gave me…

“The landscape is an arena for the interaction of natural and social forces. It is not fully under the control of its authors. We will have to create the world’s largest gardens. All…

But they had their thumbs on the scale. Shaped for their comfort and convenience, the American landscape had come to fit their lives like comfortable clothing. It was a stable system that regularly…