![]() ![]() But that’s part of the deal hope is a renewable option. It will evaporate as soon as I come back inside and read the newspaper. When I discover little curve-necked bean sprouts emerging in perfectly even rows, I’m flooded with a warm glow of predictable order imposed on a disorderly planet. I like putting on my muck boots and traipsing up to the garden in springtime to see what’s come up overnight. If we weren’t willing to do this, I think we would need to move out and let somebody else do it.īut I’m more than willing. The ethical choice is to manage it for food production in a way that maintains productivity, improves the health of its soils and watershed, and sequesters more carbon than it burns. It would feel wrong to occupy that kind of land and let it lie fallow. This place is not just our domicile, but a piece of ground that is well suited to producing food. Ours is a working farm that feeds more than just our family, and employs a few extra hands, especially in summer. ![]() ![]() Excerpts from “The Ground Underneath Us,” one of five new chapters written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition ![]()
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