NYYM’s Earthcare Fund was pleased to be able to give a grant to the Central Nyack Pollinator Pathway Garden (see “A Little Eden in Nyack” on the next page). Here are a few highlights from their application:
Subtitled How to Heal our Land and Reclaim our Health, this engaging and highly readable book takes a deep look at the available research on how the quality of food is affected by soil health, literally exploring how what your food (whether plant or animal) ate affects your health.
“The Honorable Harvest” chapter in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass both asks the relevant questions and provides guidelines for us to use when making decisions about food (or anything else we consume):
If we are fully awake, a moral question arises as we extinguish the other lives around us on behalf of our own. Whether we are digging wild leeks or going to the mall, how do we consume in a way that does justice to the lives we take? [...]
