21 Apr Tue 2009
EARTH DAY.WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME?WHAT HAS IT DONE TO ME?From a Local Farmer point of view
What does the WORD EARTH means to a LOCAL COMMUNITY FARMER like myself?
SOIL!
Here in south Florida soil translates into SAND.So to make the soil ready for the EARTH..I have to: COMPOST.Here is a true story on the subject.
Once ,I asked a local barn to let me recycle the hay which they throw away in the dumpster and I was bullied and shown the door with A BIG NO for an answer!
Here in Florida we have a lot of cow manure that is recycled and sold in bags as compost.Consider what they feed and inject into the cows and you will understand why I choose not to use cow stuff!
This Earth day a lot of people like to ONLY EAT and TALK GREEN while at the same time they walk BROWN .Meaning : there are a lot of hypocrecy in our approach in celebrating EARTH DAY.
We go shopping at a health food store "X "that throws away its produce scrapp into the dumpster for example , while the hand outs and brochure talks green !
Wwe do not hear of LOCAL FARMERS or LOCALLY GROWN PRODUCE and we do not see any in the " X" HF Store.Usually they are painting a picture to make them LOOK good in the eyes of the SHOPPERS.
Let us change this .Let us go to celebrate the EARTH DAY where the EARTH BELONGS : in the GARDEN .at the FARM.!
What has Earth day done to me .It is what I have to do for EARTH DAY instead.Guess what.I am fascilitating a workshop on RECYCLING nad COMPOSTING.
You could do the same and skip the market shopping and eating party.
Doing GOOD things to the EARTH is the best answer. RECYCLE!
Happy Earth Day.
Tony :)