In a message dated 7/8/02 7:38:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Yeah Steve I think I've just about got the hang of this ' You can go ahead and farm your patch but I have to give mine back to the blackfellers and /or plant it out to trees and leave??? L Charles >> No Sir, we live in an ever changing world where the idea of "native" is kind of lost due to our ever expanding hunger for technology and resources. The idea for the future is for us to become true stewards and work on the earth in such a way that we tend to Nature in a loving manner. It matters not that something is not native. We are native to earth and our dominion over Nature has been an abusive one. People that are carrying forward the impulse of biodynamics have a responsibility to farm in a self sufficient manner and persevere and teach and spread the word. If you want to create a truly "holistic" native landscape how far are you willing to go??? Let's not do it half assed. Our farm too is on the ancestral lands of the Algonquin Indians, the homeland of the great Chief Lenne Lenape. If folks here want native I would be more than willing to relinquish my land to the original stewards. After all they did a better job than we. Here on Long Island they lived peacefully and harmoniously for thousands of years while the white man has polluted the ground water, destroyed the bays and estuaries and polluted the ocean and the shorelines plus deforested the land in a mere three hundred and sixty years. Go native??? OK...SStorch
