The Food Crisis Is Our Energy Crisis
Posted in Agriculture, Coming Home to Eat, Earth Day, Family, General, Native Seeds / SEARCH, Poetry, Sustainable Environments on Aug 18th, 2008
By Gary Paul Nabhan
for Slow Food Nation
The Earth has grown tired of making fossilized food
Tired of having to pump fossil fuel as well as
Ancient groundwater up from her very innards
To let them spill onto our fields & orchards
Where frantic crops are forced to suck it all up.
What oozed out of the aquifer and oil well
Now [...]