While in Moscow, Idaho I interviewed Brad Jaeckel who teaches a course on Organic Farming (and runs a 3 acre organic farm Community Sponsored Agriculture project) for Washington State University here. He said there has been a movement in the last 25 years for more and more small liberal arts colleges to add these kinds of things to their curriculums because some public sentiment is moving in that direction… I then interviewed Kelly Kingsland of Affinity Farms in Moscow, who has a one-acre organic garden in the city limits here and sells at the local farmer’s market. “We don’t want to use petroleum to bring our food to market,” she said… Then it was on to Cottonwood, Idaho where I interviewed Sr. Carrol Ann Wassmuth who does Forest Management for 1,000 acres of forest at a monastery here. She is a Benedictine nun and said the Rule of Benedict is to: “Treat everything as if they were sacred vessells of the alter (including all in the environment).” She has given talks on such topics as: “Stewardship, Ethics and Responsibility” and “The Spirituality of Foresty.” She added: “I am an environmentalist, and I log.” She said in a healthy forest you may sometimes hear “wind through the trees, birds — and a chain saw, if (the latter) is being used responsibly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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