Most of us take the fertility of the earth for granted. We are in a crisis of fertile soil.

Date:   5/11/2005 12:32:57 PM ( 19 y ago)

How Fertile Are You?
I had a little run in with a young
buck of a house mate the other day.

I had arranged for Rick Ryan,
an incredibly skilled arborist
and permaculture expert
to drop off six or more large
containers of the most precious
compost that Rick had built with
nature's help over 40 years.

Rick was having to move from his
home, the home where he has resided
for many, many years. His mom just died.

The other relations want to sell the place.
It is a great loss for the region.
We do not have that many people who
ground peace on earth, who literally
are in place to increase the fertility of the soil
and all that can grow of it.

We take for granted the amount of fertile soil
we have.

Fertile soil was once a natural happening.
We had fertile soil that went 18 or more inches deep,
but our quality of relations with each other--
the care and concern we show for each other--
has allowed other technologies to take command
of our earth.

As a result we are enmeshed in technologies
that are causing most of us in the CureZone to
come up short in minerals. When minerals
are not in us, neither are enzymes, and neither
is our capacity to successful live pure, natural, and whole
lives on the earth.

We are each no more fertile than the ground we
grow from. Please STOP and take this in.

Bernard Jensen wrote a book called Empty Harvest.
IT is still out there.

IT speaks to the crisis in foods. We are--most of us--
living off--fax foods--virtual foods.

They are NOT what nature intended.
They are not capable of supporting a connection
with the deeper healing wholeness inside of us.

Even organic food is in crisis.
Yes, more and more people now want organic,
but most organic is now being grown by large farms.
Corporate mentality has replaced the small family farmer
who was living in place, and hold the fertility of soil
as a co-creation process with nature. The small
farmer grows soil as a sacred act. His life depends
on this and so does his income.

YES, the large organic farms are doing soil building--
This is labor intensive, but the finest quality of foods
come from farmers who are personally involved, deeply
involved in the growth of not only their foods, but their soil.

On our 1/3 acre--our young buck of a house mate
looked around and sees tons of things--mainly weeds
growing. He imagines that this land is fertile.
We are benefiting from a winter with much rain
and this has produced lots of plant growth
and increased temporarily the ability of the soil
to sustain some plant growth. The summer is
coming. Only the stronger weeds will survive.

He imagines you can pull the weeds, turn the soil,
and this soil will produce anything he would like to plant.

NOT.

This is not so. Unless a conscious relationship
is engaged between the soil and the person,
the soil is likely not at a level where it can sustain
the connection between body and Soul, or body and Mind.

This connection happens naturally, but in our day,
we have so interfered with nature that we have less and
less fertile soil.

Our soil is clay. To get it to be fertile takes a gardener.

To get soil balanced to the point where it is truly stronger
than the pests that will invade and eat your food, many times
takes eight years of soil building.

The places on our land that can support fertile growth
have for the most part been tended--consciously tended.

Trees seem to have a life of their own once the roots go
deep, but even trees ask for additional nurturing from
a gardener's hand.

And so I ask you, dear friends in the CureZone,
get one pot of soil and start build it up with compost
you make yourself, where ever possible.

IF you have no place for a compost pile,
they start earthworms growing in a 5 gallon container.
Their castings are gold for the earth.

IF you cannot do this, go out and find a natural nursery,
and ask some questions.

Get one large pot going and growing,
and start a small ecological Health garden
in a few pots, grow some of your own seedlings
of sunflowers or buckwheat. Eat these small seedlings
when they are about three inches high or less.

Get a good size beet already grown from the store.
Plant it in a pot in rich fertile soil.
Take care of that plant. It will start producing
new growth of leaves. You can harvest this new growth
of leaves. Beet greens are a good place to start.
They will feed and build the blood of the nutrients
a woman loses with her period.

Fertility is at stake.

Love from Your Enchanted Gardener

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