Soil is sacred...

Two powerhouses of sustainable agriculture--the leaders of the movement before it was a movement--Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry talk of a needed change in our farming practices. in the NYTimes here. They talk of the precious resource that is soil and of a new farm bill for the future...

"we also need a national agricultural policy that is based upon ecological principles. We need a 50-year farm bill that addresses forthrightly the problems of soil loss and degradation, toxic pollution, fossil-fuel dependency and the destruction of rural communities.

This is a political issue, certainly, but it far transcends the farm politics we are used to. It is an issue as close to every one of us as our own stomachs."