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Cherry picking. \u00a0This morning. \u00a0Blueberry picking, too. \u00a0Also pears from two trees, their entire crop. \u00a0First, the low hanging fruit, then up the ladder. \u00a0A lot of cliches come from the world of the orchard and the garden. \u00a0Let’s wait til it bears fruit. \u00a0He planted the seed on fertile ground. \u00a0 In the not so very long ago, maybe one or two generations, perhaps three depending on your age these sayings were not culture; rather, they were everyday experience, or, every appropriate season occurrence. \u00a0Now, with increasing urbanization, the rapid decline of the family farm and a rush to do all things with technology the hand in the tree which picked the cherries is on the keyboard checking Facebook or more likely on the iPhone checking Snapchat.<\/p>\n
Delivering vast numbers from the mind numbing toil of subsistence agriculture is a good thing. \u00a0No doubting that. \u00a0Even having agriculture and horticulture done by the few is not necessarily a bad thing. \u00a0We need food and flowers. \u00a0If they come to our table full of nutrients and vibrant, well then. \u00a0If however, we create a system where the food we eat has been modified not for its nutritional value but for the positive economics of its growing, harvesting and processing, well then.<\/p>\n
Somewhere a tectonic plate of public opinion has begun to shift. \u00a0I can feel it in the newspapers, the magazines, the websites I read and visit. \u00a0That shift is toward action against global warming. \u00a0My hope is that this shift, which will ride over the continent of fossil fuel and through subduction bury it in the mantle below the crust where it belongs, will include within it a return to the tree, the wolf, the tomato and the onion. \u00a0May it be so.<\/p>\n
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