As
I write this, I'm looking out my office window here at Ploughshares
Farm. In 2003, most of our fifty acres was pasture or crop land. Today
it is primarily tall grass prairie and native Hoosier hardwoods. With
help from various foresters and conservation folks, we have -- what I
just learned thanks to this week's QuakerBooks & More selection -- "rewilded" this "tamed"
piece of Indiana.
Now I grew up a city boy so the idea of doing all this was, in Quaker parlance, "not a thought that would have occurred to me." Until, that is, until Nancy and I began building our home here. We began walking the land and both realized that we were called to steward it in the best sense of that word. And the best way to live up to that spiritual call was to restore -- or rewild -- it. Today we are blessed by an abundance of bunnies, butterflies, bald eagles, deer, wild turkey, and more. Hopefully the Earth is a bit better for all this work, too. I know my soul is.
So please take a look Feral (and other Earth stewardship books) at QuakerBooks & More. It will feed your spirit.
Now I grew up a city boy so the idea of doing all this was, in Quaker parlance, "not a thought that would have occurred to me." Until, that is, until Nancy and I began building our home here. We began walking the land and both realized that we were called to steward it in the best sense of that word. And the best way to live up to that spiritual call was to restore -- or rewild -- it. Today we are blessed by an abundance of bunnies, butterflies, bald eagles, deer, wild turkey, and more. Hopefully the Earth is a bit better for all this work, too. I know my soul is.
So please take a look Feral (and other Earth stewardship books) at QuakerBooks & More. It will feed your spirit.
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| Ploughshares Sunset |
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