Letter: Stewards of the Earth

Published 4:00 pm Thursday, February 14, 2013

We here on the North Coast are blessed with a group of young farmers who know not only about agriculture and its often sordid history, but understand that healthy soil is the foundation for the planet, and everything that grows on it. So they are creating gorgeous dirt.

These farmers, from Bay City to Puget Island and Clatskanie, are raising vegetables and fruits in a sustainable, organic manner, and treating their food animals humanely and with respect, feeding them properly, rather than with corn, which many cant even digest.

Its a great place to live, this place, because we have the talent and the resources to feed ourselves here. Oranges and other semitropicals from California and other climes are undeniably special, and great to have available.

But when push comes to shove, and as fossil fuels become increasingly unaffordable causing an implosion in the supply chains of the giant squid Big Ag corporations, these skilled farmers and fishers will be able to feed us what we need, and we will survive.

We eaters must do everything we can to encourage and nurture these young stewards of the Earth, the very life of the future.

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