Hello everyone!
Yes, It's been a while! I hope you are all well and busy with gardens
and life.
That's why you haven't heard
from me in a while. Not that I mind the
busy with the gardens part. We've been
making piles of branches, debris and leaves around the place ... sort of mini
Hugelkulture* piles ... at intervals along a hill, regenerating some soil and
height in preparation for terracing over the next few years. Our neighbours must think we are nuts. Last fall, they bagged up their fallen leaves
and we dragged them home to the yard (about 100 bags and we realize we could
have used 200).
Last evening we went to see
the most marvellous film: Symphony of the Soil by Deborah
Koons Garcia. (http://www.symphonyofthesoil.com/)
It's a beautifully crafted
web of plant and soil science, amazing photography from microscopic to
vistas of wonderful plants, interviews with so many great gardeners and soil
lovers one can't keep track, the most amazing watercolour animation, and - most
important - some hope for soil, the
planet and ourselves.
My husband and I sat in the
library auditorium, holding hands, mumbling to each other things like "I've heard her talk before" and
"that idea was in a book I read
thirty years ago" and "it's
about time they're realizing that's how to do things". For us, it was a superior "date night".
Rodale experimental farm
figured in the film, and see my note below to get a report** Rodale just came
out with to do with carbon sequestration and regenerative agriculture.
Has U.S. President Obama mentioned
this report in whatever his statement was today on climate change? (haven't read that yet ... there's too much
to read most days!)
This post is a bit short on order and lyricism, I know! But ... well, I got it posted!
Very best regards!
Why's Woman
* hugelkulture - check the
entry at http://www.communitygardenslondon.ca/gardensolutions.html and then follow thge links to a great page full of "how to"
** Rodale report: Regenerative
Organic Agriculture and Climate Change.
For the press release and a link to the report: http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/
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