Our mother needs our help

[Conchis]

I share your journey brother. I've lived such a stupid first 60 years...that's right....60 years, but I've finally come around a bit in the last 4. There is so much to say about what you are striving to do and it's so interconnected with just about everything else. When people started plowing, they exposed the unexposed soil to lots of oxygen, which released access to organic materials that were sequestered below because of the limited oxygen exposure. The plants grown in this soil excel for a year or so, until it's "burned up" and then we have to start adding stuff, and corporations start supplying that stuff, in the form of fertilizers, and we kill off all of the weeds, which attract beneficial insects so we get to buy insecticides and it just goes on and on and on....

You may already know about permaculture, but if you don't, I would be that you would love reading about its approach to living in a space. Permaculture gardens don't take everything, don't plant in neat rows so that insects can march from plant to plant without having to cross terrain monitored by predators, allow for sharing with wildlife which provides manure, cultivation and predation. It's a neat system.

Thanks for posting!

[pyrangello]

Whether it be saving a stray dog or cat, interacting with the mountains or the streams all in the harmony of one another enjoying each other at the same time, respect of our plants and animals , support those who wish to protect and envision what grand mother earth we have. Plant as much every year, teach to as many as I can and yes send back to her what she is allowing us to enjoy and cohabitate together. Riding a snowmobile at 10,000 ft in the rockies and just stopping to see 100 miles in any direction, sitting on the lake at midnight with a water body that has turned to glass adoring the stars ,riding the paved roads in the back country on a bike. Or just stopping at any moment to enjoy that moment in time of how beautiful life can be. Oh what we have, and possibly one of the greatest rewards may be when we plant a vegetable or flower and to see that mature of what we started only to have the earth and that flower, plant, tree or vegetable continue on...............

[mpod001]

I am so overwhelmed with the love and support I have received from this forum on my first day being a member of this community. Thank you everyone for your kind words.

I have heard of permaculture and I have toyed with the idea of setting up a community permaculture social enterprise in my local area, where food would be grown and members of the community can access it and take away food for free. It would be a huge project, but not one I could do alone, obviously. Maybe I need to explore this idea further and see if I can get anyone local to me in on this idea? It would be great to have something like that in every community.

WhiteFeather - I love that video, I have seen it before on Youtube Thank you for sharing and reminding me about it!