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Reduce Consumption : Produce Locally


Community and Soil

Submitted by bewing on April 17, 2006 - 9:01am.

Food is where community begins. We can build community, create meaningful livelihood and design sustainable neighbourhoods and safe streets when we pay attention to how the food we need travels from the field to the table. First stop, the soil, where Life begins.

<img> Through our involvement in this journey we can discover how to care for the soil which provides, in collaboration with the weather, the essential nutrients that enable plants to grow strong and healthy. When we feed the soil we feed ourselves. When we feed the soil we create the conditions which enable future generations to feed themselves. For it is the soil that provides the environment which enables plants to thrive. A good gardener makes soil.

Care of the soil is how we learn the importance of our connection to the earth and what our role is within the web that is Life.

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