May 8th

I feel saturated by Sustainable Agriculture. The ideas don’t interest me as much any more. I don’t feel inspired by another wholesome farming poem or analysis of the good life or good work anymore. I don’t feel energized by knowledge about industrial agriculture, CAFOs, and eating choices at the supermarket. Granted, I still want to do it. and believe in it. But as a movement of ideas and philosophy, I need to get away from it, or maybe it needs to get away from me, for a little while. Even good water flows away from plants as it sinks into the ground, and if it stays it rots them. The soil is saturated and now must infiltrate deeper and flow away before I can appreciate the next rains….