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Whidbey
Walks
Mailing address:
PO Box 492
Clinton, WA 98236
Shop located at: 2326 Newman Road at Highway 525,
Freeland, WA
Phone:
360-321-4950
woods@
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| Sunday February
18 2007 06:
36 PM |
This morning I made a lentil/nettle soup with the first nettles of the year. This is really the time to pick them, when they are small and tender. Adding garlic, cayenne, onion and tomato sauce made it a pretty good soup -- high in vitamins, too!
I've been reading The Sand County Almanac of Aldo Leopold, writing on The Community Concept. He says that all ethics are based on a single principle, "that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts." And, further, that "The land ethic simply enlarges the boundary of community to include soils, water, plants, animals, or collectively:. the land."
I always get kind of a kick when I can pick and eat something that is growing wild. I am a long way from really Living Off the Land, but even a simple thing like wandering out to the yard with scissors and gloves and snipping some nettles for the soup pot gives me a feel of a being part of a community which includes the land.
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