"Revolutionary Plots" by Rebecca Solnit
Read the first paragraph of Solnit's article about urban agriculture (community gardening) and thank Sandy Pearce for creating the Goodwin College community garden.
"THE ANTI-WAR POET and soldier Siegfried Sassoon reports that toward the end
of World War I, Winston Churchill told him that war is the normal occupation of
man. Challenged, Churchill amended this to “war—and gardening.” Are the two
opposites? Some agriculture is a form of war, whether it’s clear cutting
rainforest, stealing land from the poor, contaminating the vicinity, or
exploiting farm workers, and some of our modern pesticides are descended from
chemical warfare breakthroughs for the First World War. But gardening represents
a much wider spectrum of human activity than war, and if war is an act of the
state, gardening is far, far more ancient than city-states (if not nearly so old
as squabbling)"
Read the rest HERE.
Source: Orion July/August Issue
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