I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.
It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.
New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
