Slowly, Towards a Genetically Modified Biosphere

by Steve Sprinkle

We can begin with the premise that even if you don’t abhor the notion of genetically modified agriculture, you may have heard enough to be wary, doubtful. The novel biology is now so ubiquitous and by and large therefore passively accepted, that most consumers have every reason to be concerned even while consuming the products randomly, anonymously. Options are diminishing. Organic has been tainted for a decade, especially US domestic production.

Learning from the community of the land

While recently shoveling aged horse manure around the berry vines on my small organic farm to fertilize them, which gives me great pleasure, I thought about what I have learned about the community of the land by farming over the last two decades. For example, I noticed how spreading brown gold--to which I add the green manure of decaying plants--utilizes waste to transform plants and help them grow. The animal-plant communal connection is essential to life.