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LArche Farm & Gardens agricultural complex in rural Pierce County...
Located about 12 miles southeast of Tacoma on Vickery Avenue East, its a small farm - 8 acres with a farmhouse, a barn and four greenhouses on the property. But it has a large mission, one that goes far beyond the growing and harvesting of foodstuffs.
"LArche is dedicated to the marginalized and those who have always been cast out. We were founded on the Gospel values of the New Testament and the Beatitudes," said Patrick Toohey, the farms manager.
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Candidate for U.S. Senate Scott Kleeb on how farmers can solve the energy crisis.
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FEATURE: Can Vertical Farming Save Us? 7/31/2008
Advocate for urban farms, Dickson Despommier, explains his plan.
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James Howard Kunstler on The Future of Agriculture
"[We currently have] an agribusiness model of farming cranked up on the steroids of cheap oil and cheap natural-gas-based fertilizer. Both of these "inputs" have recently entered the realm of the non-cheap."
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The Deliberate Agrarian: Agrarianism Reborn
[A]t this very apogee of the mega-farm, something new—and yet very old—may be stirring. Industrialized farming appears to be “pregnant”: not with some newly bioengineered chimera nor with the latest super-machine, but with agrarianism, a humanistic approach to agriculture that would re-attach people to the soil. The farming future may not lie with the consolidators, speculators, and agribusiness. Rather, it may lie with the resurrection of a family-centered agriculture. On the surface, this would seem to be among the least likely of twenty-first-century possibilities. All the same, as the land-use expert Eric Freyfogle enthuses, “agrarianism is again on the rise” and “agrarian ways and virtues are resurging in American culture.” Oddly enough, there is evidence to back up these claims.
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Family Plan: 1908
"Just as soon as the boys get old enough to handle a plow, we go straight back to the farm. Factory is no place for boys."
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Farmers Are "Lords of Creation": 1864
Come, friend farmer, what do you think of the business of farming?
You have had a season of rest from bodily labor, or from its
severities, during the winter, and a good time for reflection.
Farmers must think; they are not born to move without mental
activity, and their chance is great for profitable reflection. The vast
scenes of nature are all around us; and here is man, the tiller, the
cultivator of this great globe, placed in the midst of this vast
creation, to improve it, to adorn it, to live by it, and to enjoy it. Yes,
my good friend, you belong to that class who are, thus to speak,
the “lords of creation.”
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The Way of the World
The family in modern farming is like the soil when it gets too much acid in it. Sour soil, badly needing lime to sweeten it up. The modern way of living on a farm is soured and in bad need of sweetening too.
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