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Carmine Hazelwood's avatar

That is a very beautiful goat! It is those old rhythms and cycles that can anchor us when the human world is in an uproar. Your efforts to grow an agroforestry community are hopeful, caring, kind and pragmatic too for humans and the land. If only more of us planted trees native to our places, and took care of the land as you try to do. Every year I tend to my small urban yard of native plants, shrubs and trees, making a tiny difference for wildlife, and it rewards my efforts many times over with the meaning, purpose and sense of hope it brings to my days. x

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John Gonter's avatar

The need for community support and engagement you touch on is critical to developing food systems that maintain soil health and healthy people. In a reduction, I'd say the modern focus on the individual at the expense of family and community has given us declining health, too much corn and soy and the inability to sustain diversified small and medium scale farming. Every time I hear someone talk about lower prices on food at Walmart my hopes die a little more. I read recently that American's spend 6% of their income on food today, when not that long ago it was 25%. 20% of meals are eaten in the car and probably 90% of those are eaten alone. Well, for my part I teach foraging, cooking and eating to groups and families...and I hope they decide that while family time and community time producing, preparing and eating food may seem like chores/work, they really are the foundation for happy and healthy families and communities. Thank you for your thoughts.

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Kirsten Ellen Johnsen, PhD's avatar

Your prose speaks soulfully straight to my hungering belly. All the repair: the daily discomfort, the uncertainty; and the gentle rain, and the chicken soup my neighbor made for me. I’ve been two days in my headache bed after my father in law died, fussing on the world. Your words remind me who I am.

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Benjamin Bramble's avatar

So glad to hear this made a connection with you. Well wishes on your route to repair.

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Saill White's avatar

As our nation-state falters, all we can do is learn to feed our community. At breakneck speed because that is the hand we are dealt. You are years ahead of me in terms of nurturing soil in order to create more calories to feed ourselves Without foreign trade, without subsidies, without freakin CostCo. We got this. Sending hugs from the left coast.

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Persia Rose's avatar

🙌🏻💞

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