Words&Dirt

It depends. In the wake of my two-week Permaculture Design Course at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC), these two words are burned into my brain.  For me, they have come to represent the uncertainty and excitement that pervade the practice of environmentally responsible agriculture.  Inside them resides the imperative that is fast becoming […]

“On the collective level, once we have begun to justify our conduct publicly, reason leads us to develop and expand our moral concerns, drawing us on toward an objective point of view.  On the individual level reason is less compelling; while it leads us to see inconsistencies between our beliefs and our actions, or between […]