Far be that fate from us…said Ovid over 2,000 years ago…
It got me thinking of all I thought would not happen when I first took up growing…
We would not destroy our lifeline, the soil, for all that is necessary for life lies within…
And yet this is happening all over the developed world, and, everywhere else too!
Did you see the gigantically terrifying Dust-cloud thet enveloped Phoenix, Arizona over recent days?
Reminiscent of the Dust-Bowl catastrophes of the hungry thirties…
In Permaculture we mulch…and mulch and…mulch! Building up layers of soil and goodness.
There is little need to dig, disturbing the ecological balance of the soil.
The fate that awaits us all is a depleted soil and thence a depleted Earth and this is happening every day in corporate controlled Agriculture…and there is a Land-Grab going on, have no doubt about that!
The Corporate monsters are on the march!
We must all take our positions in making a stand against this and we can!
As consumers we are powerful, very powerful indeed!
I was reminded on Twitter this morning of this when reading some of the tweets accumulated overnight and one of them was about buying local, another about imported foods from parts of Africa where hunger is now ravaging the people…think on…
Hazelnuts beginning to ripen here at Bealtaine…this is a food to forage as well as grow and forms a good source of protein for the vegan or vegetarian.
These store well and can be ground or minced and added to burgers!
And a few more words from Ovid…”Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor,” which translated means, simply…”I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.”
We have choices.
We have the power.
We can be the change we want to see…
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The winter deepens.
This is a time to leave out food scraps for the birds and mammals facing into the cold short days and bitter long nights.
The plight of hungry animals was literally brought home to me during the winter of 2010.
Snow had fallen on frosted ground.
The frozen ground held sway for six long weeks.
One very beautiful, but frozen day, a handsome fox boldly walked up to the back of the cottage.
Food that was put down on the ground for the birds had tempted the hungry animal.
As I snapped these photographs, the fox looked up and stared right at me.
Hunger fuelled courage.
