It's all about the soil!

Spent a wonderful day with the Master Gardeners of Green County. They were hosting their yearly symposium and had a great line-up of dynamic speakers. One speaker quoted Wendell Berry…”the soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. This reminded me of a quote over 2000 years ago by Xenophon (400 B.C.) “to be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil.