Comments on: Pizza Vs. Rewilding

By: Strider

Strider — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:10:05 +0000

Yeah, as a kid raised on a commercial farm, I know the destructiveness of agriculture first-hand. I was also raised in a very religious family and I always found it interesting that the punishment given to Adam and Eve for finding out about good and evil was that they became farmers…

This got me to thinking, is this story really a parable made up by the ancients about how knowledge of evil leads to agriculture? That suffering and agriculture and evil all go hand and hand? Also, Adam and Eve didn’t get to be naked anymore…(damn!) Sounds like a story about the beginning of civilization to me.

Anyway, I am just beginning on the road to rewilding myself, I’m kinda at the kindergarten stage, and man, am I having fun! Today a rewilding neighbor taught me about bees while taking apart an old hive; we got to eat the yummy anti-viral goo the bees had left behind..good stuff!

anyway, happy to have stumbled across your blog, will likely take classes from you in the future.

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By: Urban Scout

Urban Scout — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:34:15 +0000

Thanks for your kind words Mike. Interesting bit about Saturn!

By: mikerock

mikerock — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:23:47 +0000

Scout, after reading your description of agriculture as ecologically speaking, an induced catastrophe of the land, I suddenly understand why in old ancient, Medieval and Renaissance astrological treatises that agriculture is said to be ruled by the planet Saturn, which generally signifies *destruction* — the Greater Malefic. Tillage is an act of destruction upon the local web of life on a piece of land, and when you bring in the iron plow and especially gas-powered megamachinery it becomes an act of pillage to boot — unrestrained Mars, the Lesser Malefic. Tillage, pillage, all kind of has a ring to it. Your blog discursion vis a vis rewilding is provocative and inspiring, and I have to admit you look super sexy in a fur loincloth too. Your fashion sense is as provocative as your ideas for sure. Anyway thanks for helping shed some new light on some old wisdom for me.

By: Urban Scout

Urban Scout — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:54:27 +0000

Thanks Emily, I put a link to your site on my page!

By: dreamofstars

dreamofstars — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:16:38 +0000

Thanks Peter! I am currently planning a foraging-focussed garden on my parents’ land in Ohio. I have posted some thoughts over at ReWild… where I have been hanging around lately. I never got to meet you when I lived in Portland, but have been following Emily’s and your experiences closely. I really appreciate this post, and am going to link to it from my blog that I just started I AM HOMEGROWN on wordpress http://iamhomegrown.wordpress.com/ where I am going to record my experiences with the foraging garden experiment and plans. Thanks again for this post! -emily