"And even today, against
overpowering odds and prohibitive costs, one does not have to go
far in any part of the country to hear voiced the old hopes that
stirred millions of immigrants, freed slaves, westward movers,
young couples starting out: a little farm, a little shop, a little
store--some kind of place and enterprise of one's own, within and
by which one's family could achieve a proper measure of
independence, not only of economy, but of satisfaction, thought,
and character."
-- Wendell Berry (one of my favorite authors)
-- Wendell Berry (one of my favorite authors)
"Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato."
-- Wendell Berry
Hopefully our children will know both by and by. This picture was after several hours of pulling tansy from the south hill. It is the second of many truckloads we'll be taking to the dump over the next couple of weeks. The last project was pulling a dead cow out of the creek, and the week before that was chopping up two 50-ft oaks we had to knock down for the new driveway. How glorious to work hard! Makes a person feel alive. I think we'll tackle potatoes next spring...
