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Thanks for posting this book! For me, it dovetails nicely with John Rappoports latest…what can I do??
While diving into areas I would have thought crazy 10 years ago, the nagging question has been “what can I do?” The internal inventory of my education, life and talents wasn’t exactly awe-inspiring. It turns out I’m just an ordinary, rather introverted, Midwestern grandma with probably not enough time left to shore up a resume and still “change the world”. After all, “What did you think of Dr. Farrell’s last book?” is not really a question you find in the grandma world…
So I put the “what can I do” on the way back burner and began to focus on The Sumac. It seemed it had suddenly taken over the back yard but, of course, it was years. I convinced my husband to declare war on the sumac and rescue the garden. It was rescued, then put on life support and is now a healthy vibrant square of food producing greenery. We started planting fruit and nut trees. (How appropriate!) Then I convinced the man with the spade to dig out “useless” shrubs and put in strawberries, raspberries and a herb garden. All the while whispering sweet nothings about how we were doing all this to provide an income stream in our retirement. Maybe I couldn’t change the world but I sure could provide my family with healthy food and take the extra to the farmers market.
Somewhere between learning how to grow things and feeding my book addiction I ran across books about permaculture and forest agriculture. The concept of tree agriculture was intriguing and the man with the spade loves trees. Ding..ding..ding… We had a winner here!
But, a funny thing happened on the way to the forest. The people I began to meet and the things I could do began to expand. Not earth shattering, change the world stuff…more like using hazelnut and almond meals in cooking instead of flour (adding my shopping list to the demand side of tree agriculture). Sending a donation for some more trees to a young local farmer trying to convert the family farm to forest agriculture. Buying used books and passing them around…”Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver is my current favorite..(she tells a nice story about good food without the sledgehammer I tend to grab)…
A breathless phone call from someone with 26 acres and a son with another 40 next door… “Guess what? I just bought three hazelnut bushes at the hardware store…pause… I think I can do this”! Oh, WOW! Pay dirt! All I had to do was talk crazy a little bit and hand her a book about tree agriculture!
It’s beginning to occur to me that the answer to “what can I do” might not be a lightening bolt coming down from the sky (like I was hoping). It just might be more like planting a tree (a little stick actually)…you just start doing and the little things start growing.