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"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
--from an essay in "The Long-Legged House""The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness."
"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
--both the above are from essays in "The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays"Is this so hard to believe?
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What is that? Is it making grape juice? Sorry to be so out of the loop 🙂
Hello Brittney: yep, grapes! We have about an acre of Concord and Niagara grapes. It’s more than we can eat or use so we give most of them away. I have finally (finally!) taken some time to juice them. Whew.
Ah grapes. I thought sunberries when I first saw them. I was wondering how you juice Concords. My neighbour delivers them to me every fall.
Do you ever dry them?
I’m going that today.
Is that a squeezo? I have an older squeezo that I just love.
OG: Sunberries, huh. That’s on my list, actually. But nope just Concords.
Jeri, well, they’re seedy and their skins are kinda thick so no. We do make grape fruit leather with them though…
BB: Ours is not a Squeezo but it looks like the same thing. Tom put the damned top in the dishwasher, bad husband that he is, so it’s a little warped. It’s by Back to Basics and we got a couple extra spirals and sieves to go with it. I confess I only use it for grapes because the thing frustrates me immensely. For tomatoes I use a simple food mill and for applesauce I use a chinois. Of the three the food mill never leaves the kitchen for basement storage….