My favorite movie as a young girl was Fern Gully. Thinking about it now makes me wonder what happens to us between childhood and adulthood that removes a sense of responsibility for the next generation? How can all these movies come out with Big Oil and Deforestation as the villains, yet so many often grow up aspiring to be those people, or at the very least dependent on those realities to survive?At the NOFA MA Winter Conference there was an old farmer sitting on a bench outside handing out flyers for a 60 acre farm. He said his siblings won't let him keep it, so he had to sell it. My heart fell; if no one grows food in our generation or cares for the land, what will we have left?I took a convoluted journey to get back to this work I am trying to do now with permaculture. I am happy to be here now, but sometimes I wish I could go back to my 8 year old self and whisper in her ear that what she felt watching Fern Gully was real and was not going away, and that she should try to fix it with all her might. - Jess
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