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Breathing in Mt. Rainier

Bob Sh’mal Ellenberg

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BREATHING IN MT. RAINER

Harry was sitting on a bench near Puget Sound with a fixated stare 50-miles away at mammoth Mt. Rainer. He was feeling a connection, inwardly laughing, musing to himself: “we’re both part of the earth; she just happened to grow a bit larger than me.” He wondered if there was a way to make a tangible,… Continue

Added by Sh'mal Ellenberg on October 7, 2011 at 4:01pm — 2 Comments

New farms, Old ways

I had a chance to visit one of the new kind of dairy farmers yesterday – the kind who fills a farm

with a variety of people, and animals, plants and trees, and new ideas. This kind of farmer is fascinated with the way things work: how water and air flow through soil, how organic matter is built up or depleted, the impacts of plowing, the intricacies of grazing, the behavior of cows, chickens, predator hawks, shepherd…

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Added by davidreed on October 6, 2011 at 3:16pm — 1 Comment