CREATE NEW HABITS
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WORKSHOPS
HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN ORGANIC GARDEN * Planning your garden * Location, size, soil type * Seeds, plants, and sources * Planting, maintenance * Mulching and composting * Harvesting All the steps to creating your garden are shown in these workshops. For more information: jkwolfjr@yahoo.com HOW THE HEALTH OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT AFFECTS THE HEALTH OF YOUR FOOD In these classes you will gain a broader understanding of how both our produce and our livestock are grown affects the health of our food and our environment. This is very important to know in order to make the important choices which will maintain a sustainable food supply for both the present and the future.  |
EARTH ETHICS
What could unite us in nurturing a reverence for life and constant wonder at the recycling of life’s energy? The greatest gift to us from the earth---our food. It is grown from soil that has taken millions of years to form. Do we treat this soil with respect? Gently opening it to receive our seeds, nurturing it with its own natural substances, moistening it with clean water, letting it rest itself so that it can gather its strength and again give back to us. If instead we attack it with sharp blades, ripping apart the intricate structure of its ability to be in balance--douse it with caustic chemicals---apply intense synthetic formulas, ultimately starve the soil of life-sustaining nutrients and organic matter so it lacks the ability to absorb and store water, erosion and flooding become common occurrences.
We cannot control the surges of the elements but we can try to understand them as much as possible and as in managing our passions---to work with them. We are part of the beauty and power of this life cycle. Spiritually, politically, and economically we can unite our energies to choose to produce food in a way that sustains our earth and our people in a positive and joyous way. We can cultivate a healthy cooperative relationship with the earth so that it that will be able to cradle our children and theirs in the years to come.
It is our world, our choice.
What could unite us in nurturing a reverence for life and constant wonder at the recycling of life’s energy? The greatest gift to us from the earth---our food. It is grown from soil that has taken millions of years to form. Do we treat this soil with respect? Gently opening it to receive our seeds, nurturing it with its own natural substances, moistening it with clean water, letting it rest itself so that it can gather its strength and again give back to us. If instead we attack it with sharp blades, ripping apart the intricate structure of its ability to be in balance--douse it with caustic chemicals---apply intense synthetic formulas, ultimately starve the soil of life-sustaining nutrients and organic matter so it lacks the ability to absorb and store water, erosion and flooding become common occurrences.
We cannot control the surges of the elements but we can try to understand them as much as possible and as in managing our passions---to work with them. We are part of the beauty and power of this life cycle. Spiritually, politically, and economically we can unite our energies to choose to produce food in a way that sustains our earth and our people in a positive and joyous way. We can cultivate a healthy cooperative relationship with the earth so that it that will be able to cradle our children and theirs in the years to come.
It is our world, our choice.
Our World Our Choice Princeton, NJ 08540 609-356-0558