City Farming

Folks are realizing the value of raising their own. From country cousins to city cousins, there is apparently a move afoot to get back to our roots in terms of eating what we grow.

Some folks are using small parcels of land to produce food for locals.

Read what is going on in Atlanta.

Take a look at this video:



I especially like the idea of having to go back in order to go forward.

Anybody else doing this sort of thing in your city or town?

A Very Brief Overview, One Farmer Mississippi

God of Our Weary Years (1921)

This poem from James Weldon Johnson's pen should have a familiar ring to it.

God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way.

Thou who wast by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray;

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee.

Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand
True to our God, true to our native land!

From Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans, by James Melvin Washington, Ph.D.

An important update

There is an important update on our efforts to save the Grant family farm.

Please check out this link to read up on it. I'd also encourage you to join the cause. It's a noble effort for a family that has poured out its life for what is righteous.

Here is the link: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/268646/20447472?m=6d54c0aa

Also, you can catch up at: http://www.grantfamilyfarm.blogspot.com/.

Let me know what you think.