Fall 2020 - 50

HANDS IN THE DIRT
responsibility for this, for
making sure that everyone has
a place at the table, belongs
to all of us, not just the tiny
percentage of our population
we call farmers. This too can
be an opportunity.
Each morning when I
walked my fields observing,
making lists, checking newly
planted crops. These walks
revealed new leaves unfurling,
soil lifting and cracking
exposing green pea knuckles,
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed agriculture in a new light for many.
flower jackets slipping off freshly formed fuzzy apple
babies, small fleeting gifts like drops of dew on taught
squeaky cabbages reflecting the light of the world. But my
heart and mind were also consumed by the suffering I see
in the broader world around me, by the internal collision
between our human predicament and the audible sigh of
relief I can hear from our Mother Earth as the world pauses
and the constant assault, the extraction and pollution, the
grabbing and grasping, have been forced to just stop.
We may feel paralyzed when faced with the enormity of
our modern dilemma, but we have enormous power in and
around the places where we live. This is our time to come
back home, to support all those who are re-imagining and
replanting our world - one seed, one farm, one meal, one
individual at a time.
- Michael Ableman owns Foxglove Farms in Salt Spring
Island, British Columbia and is the author of five books.
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