The WE Over Me Farm at Paul Quinn College is a story of a courageous reversal of mindset from "business as usual." Paul Quinn took a dreary situation--a financially challenged sports program--and turned it around--or rather upside down. Dug up the football field, planted a garden, started a farming program and brought fresh vegetables and fruits to an area of a large city notoriously recognized as a food desert. The students sell their organic produce--which makes way more than ticket sales to their football games--and donate 10% of what they grow to food banks and feeding programs in the Highland Hills community. Stories like this give me goose bumps and hope.
And here are 14 more things to smile about this week from Nation of Change including a book produced by the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, promoting small-scale, sustainable farming as the most potent method for feeding the increasing population. Check out: Save and Grow - A new paradigm of agriculture
And finally a must-see video, a visually enchanting movie exploring our human relationship to the soil, the skin of the Earth, and the use and misuse of agriculture as well as deforestation and development. Listen to the voices of some of the most esteemed scientists, farmers, and ranchers share their work and their connections. If you love the Earth and wish to understand how the most dynamic, powerful and complex activity of the planet is going on beneath and not above the soil, you will be mesmerized by Symphony of the Soil.
"Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be." ~ E.F. Schumacher
Till next time...many blessings, Yvonne
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