Quotes and Thoughts for the Day

[COChix]

There have been patents on plants for as long as I can remember.
We have to pay royalties on patented plants that we propagate.
I do not mind that so much, there was cost and time involved in breeding a color or habit into a plant.
What irritates me is when they patent a plant that they did not breed.
If God made it, he made it for all of us, not just the people with the money to patent it.
That is just a greedy grab for all the money.

Now, I am going to go clean something.

 

[Sydney Acres]

Oh dear, over my ovation limit. Away at work for 4 days and trying to catch up. Love this one.--April

 

[Mountain Peeps]

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This is so my friend and I!!!

 

[BayBay Peepers]

Loving the agricultural turn this thread took for the moment

 

[BayBay Peepers]

 

[COChix]

 

[hennible]

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

I'm going to take a second here and recommend everybody enjoy the books the hundred mile diet and locavore, good reads...
Plus in the hundred mile diet they drive through my neck of the woods, and shop at a nearby farmers market.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Abraham Lincoln

That's what I'm working toward!

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.
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

 

[tntchix]

I want this sign for to post next to the "pass with care" sign by my mailbox. For pete's sake don't be in such an all fired hurry whenever you see a tractor, they have to get to work too.

 

[hennible]

Man is born free and everywhere is in chain stores.
-- Graffiti

http://m.canadianliving.com/#!/blog-life/excerpt-the-100-mile-diet/77dd86abf46586c60c28665c76db9a0d
Some excerpts from the 100 mile diet in that link.

 

[tntchix]

ooh gotta read that one.