Recipe for a future soil…
Grow a small patch of grain
wheat or spelt or dry corn or barley,
feeding the soil with the compost from
last year’s straw
and many things not to be wasted.
Turn the soil by hand in good company
with songs in the sunrise
and remember we are all connected.

In the cycles of giving and receiving,
sow the seed
in waves and curves of light
turning them in gently, also by hand,
the warm paws of our human hands
to be gentle near frog, spider, and ladybug
massaging, loving the ground we are given.
With more vital food, we shall need to eat less
and small patches and small hands shall be enough.

When the seeds are up and tall, waving golden
With new seed, harvest with sickles and sythe’s.
Bundle in those beautiful bouquets of grain.
Dry and thresh and winnow with baskets and cloth.

Sprout the grain for very vital food and perhaps
make Essene bread…as the ancients did…
ground gently and made into cakes
dried in the sun,
or grind in a hand grinder to soft flour
and bake in a cobmade beehive oven…
clay and straw baking earthen grain.

Break bread amidst good company
and with the enemies as well
Make bread, not war.