When thinking of unhealthy soil, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s comes to mind: depleted soil, dark clouds that swallowed small rural communities, red dust that filled the air and people’s lungs. All of this was the result of allowing the land to be over-tilled and abused, a result of our thinking that we knew better than nature. After the dust settled, we thought we had learned our lesson.
Our health is directly connected to the health of the soil. I’m not talking about a bag of dirt that you bring home from Tractor Supply, but the soil that grows your food—the soil that was once a flourishing ecosystem, full of micronutrients that supercharge your own microbiome.
-WiscoDave
before one sister and i were born, the fam lived in kermit, tx for a year. having been out thataway before my mother was used to it. dad and older kids got sick everyday when the wind kicked in.
ReplyDeleteThis is the reason I don't fish. Those fish are living in a pool of Round Up, atrazine, dyfonate, and only GOD knows what else. In short, we are killing ourselves.
ReplyDeleteAny hopes she had of making a good point about responsible agriculture were lost when she called Glyphosate a pesticide - twice.
ReplyDeleteAn herbicide IS a type of pesticide, a s are insecticides, fungicides, etc. Weeds are “pests.”
DeletePesticides control “pests.” Its a generic term. Specifically, herbicides control vegetation, insecticides control insects, fungicides control fungus. But they’re all considered “pests,” so she’s no wrong.
DeleteJoel Saladin, mentioned in the article, wrote a very interesting book on small scale local farming called "Everything that I want to do is illegal" . Really good read.
ReplyDeleteJoel Salatin is the correct spelling of his name. (Helps with lame library search engines.)
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