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Hope we see you at Yorkmont Saturday!
We will have these products:
Organic Soy Free Eggs
Pasture Raised Lamb
Rabbit
Organic Parsley
Thanks for your interest,
Scott
We're there 8 am to 12 noon.
Sustainability & Stewardship
These are most strongly and clearly illustrated in the parable of the vineyard.
The husbandmen imagined that the vineyard in which they were sent to work for their Master was their own, that all that was in it was for them, and that their business was to enjoy life in this vineyard, forgetting the Master and killing all those who reminded them of His existence.
We have made up our minds that we live only for our own enjoyment, and of course things go ill with us...
“Seek ye first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
But we seek for “all these things” and say, “To hell with His kingdom!”
paraphrased from Leo Tolstoy, The Resurrection, chapter 28 (1899)
"using agricultural pesticides is more dangerous than atomic fallout."
Jerome Weisner - a science counselor to President John F. Kennedy, May 1963
"Weeds and insects - and bacterial and fungal attacks - all point to the degree of degeneration in the soil. Although everything in eco-agriculture is connected to everything else, the whole fabric of interrelatedness is too complicated to permit straight-line connections (cause and effect) very often. Nevertheless we can offer a few notes.
Fungi involved with plants during the past 15 million years were designed to take down plants that did not deserve to make seed. Such plants do not live up to the Creator's plan, so they must go. Insects and fungi are the first steps in taking, say, the wheat plant back into the decomposition cycle. If, indeed, insects went after the strongest, most thriving individuals, then there wouldn't be any strong seed - the worst possible natural selection. As it is, insects would rather die of starvation than eat plants grown in a healthy field."
An Acres USA Primer, Charles Walters Jr, and C.J. Fenzau 1979
Are you eating food grown in a healthy field?
Draw your own conclusions...
Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
Anne Dillard, For the Time Being, p. 172
Heritage turkeys love asparagus beetles.
Fire ants don't like rain. Turkeys like fire ants too.
Foxes eat field mice (and they'll grab a turkey!)
Bees are in the apple blossoms...
Wild harvest v. organic
Noah's ark.
