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There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
The happenings of Canoga Creek Farm & Conservancy.
Aldo Leopold
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The Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy properties are located in the heart of Upstate New York's Finger Lakes region and overlook scenic Cayuga Lake. Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy, situated in the Canoga Creek watershed, includes many acres of the Canoga Marsh. Canoga, or "Ga-no-geh" as the native Cayuga people called it, means "place of the sweet water," and has long been known as a place of abundant fish and fowl. Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy is a family farm operation focused on sustainability through the celebration and preservation of rural lifestyles and the conservation of agrobiodiversity and natural resources.
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Conservation farming puts first things first by attending to the needs of the soil—by seeing to it that the starting-off place, the base, is put into sound health and kept that way. Any other approach, no matter what it may be, always has and always must lead eventually to agricultural disaster.
-- Hugh Hammond Bennett
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
-- Edward Abbey
-- Edward Abbey
3 comments:
Very nice.
And nice commentary on my final comment on my blog, by the way, which I'm still contemplating.
And, being as I'm in a contemplative mood today, and was so foolish as to wipe out my own blog, let me post this question.
But in posing it, let me first state a figure that I read a couple of days ago. By 2012 there will be 250,000 fewer farmers in the US, according to our Census bureau.
Money mag, in fact, list us as a deadend occupation.
Perhaps, but is there an American without Yeomen?
Or, once we've succeeded in eliminating yeoman, agricultural or not, is America recognizable as such?
I think America withers without yeoman. I also think that with a possibiulity for a carbon based economy (not fossil fuel, but carbon trading, sequestration, and boiofuel production, it may be premature for them to write us off quite yet.
There is also the whole agritourism, farmers as openspace/greenspace custodian argument, of course, awaiting some economic valuation of those niceties.
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