The Existential Gardener: Gil & Marsha's Farmstand

"Success in spring and summer gardening depends on getting seeds into the earth with a moderate soil cover of at least a quarter of an inch, and keeping them in the soil while they germinate; they must then get roots down and their stems or leaves through the soil surface as speedily as possible. Once this growth process is begun, it should go on unchecked, steadily and rapidly, as the plant builds itself into a self-generating part of the life process." -Helen and Scott Nearing, Continuing The Good life, 1979

"Truly I cannot but here take Occasion to exhort all Philosophic Gentlemen to employ a reasonable Share of their thoughts and Experiments on the Subject of Agriculture as a more becoming Exercise and Relaxation than Hunting or Cards; and to be sure, more conducing to the Health of the Body, the Strength of the Mind, and to the Capacity and Generosity in the Fortune, than many other fashionable but criminal Excesses. For it ought to be observed that it is an Employment which will at once contract their Wants, and give a larger Ability to supply them; 'twill give a greater Relish to the Enjoyments of Life, and make every Part thereof sweetly varied between Ease and delightful Labour." -John Lawrence, A New System of Agriculture, 1726

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Gil & Marsha's Farmstand

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