23h • General discussion
Farming for Freedom
On this 250th Anniversary of our American Founding I feel an immense sense of importance and timeliness.
As we celebrate how far we've come as a People and all that we've accomplished, we are also faced with many trials, social challenges, and waves of despair through our society.
I too may feel the tug to get sucked under in a sometimes overwhelming amount of tribulation in this Time. I would, except for the abundance of Hope that is coming through our Agricultural Revolution.
While there are certainly many important contributors to this turning tide across the globe, I sense a distinctly American flavor to this transformation of Food. This makes sense, as we exported the Green Revolution in tandem with the cementing of the American Empire, it comes to bear that We must resolve this contention in how farming is conducted across the world.
This crescendo within agriculture, the balance of Society and Nature, of Man and his Place in the world, has been a theme long before the American endeavor. Empires have risen and fallen around their agricultural practices. We currently engage a global folly of exporting "fertility" (urea) from Persia - the origin of the historical context of destroying arable land through the agricultural practices that feed us. Is this a little too "on the nose"?
What I see as New is that we now have the Opportunity for American ingenuity, innovation, tenacity, and brilliance to come to bear on this human existential conundrum - and indeed when we have nowhere left to discover and farm.
America is a country built from farming.
Laura Ingalls Wilder attributes these words to her father-in-law as he was speaking about the expansion to the West.
"all the land our forefathers had was a little strip of country, here between the mountains and the ocean. All the way from here west was Indian country, and Spanish and French and English country. It was farmers that took all that country and made it America.” “How?” Almanzo asked. “Well, son, the Spaniards were soldiers, and high-and-mighty gentlemen that only wanted gold. And the French were fur-traders, wanting to make quick money. And England was busy fighting wars. But we were farmers, son; we wanted the land. It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung on to their farms."
I see the beginning of the restoration of this Agrarian society. I see that coinciding with the restoration of our landscapes. I see this cascading across the world, not as a cure-all for the world's troubles, but as a foundational piece to reinvigorating community autonomy across the globe.
We have critical new discoveries in the Natural Sciences and Technology that all come to bear on Soil.
Redox, Rhizophagy, Horizontal Gene Transfer, 4K cameras on microscopes as the modern-day Gutenberg printing press, and precision implements on farming machinery - alongside the Humility to Listen to Nature, are all converging to Resolve this most Human of conundrums. How do we not eat ourselves out of a Home?
The Restoration of Humus is a transcendentally Human Pursuit and Need. The Audacity to actually accomplish it in the face of all odds is, I believe, Thematically American.
I will leave you with a final quote from the most American of us - George Washington. The man who would set down a Kingdom to tend to his fields.
“It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.” –President George Washington, Eighth Annual Address to Congress, December 7th, 1796 [1]
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