These budding community institutions underscore the need to decentralize agriculture and produce much more food locally for community food self- reliance. While access to markets and a cash economy are important as well, community food security is equally important. We will also be reexamining what crops we grow, both from the point of view of nutrition and the health of the soil. Most of these also contain a higher nutritional value as well as delicious flavors that are now inspiring respected chefs to highlight them in great recipes and meals. Meanwhile, brilliant farmers and gardeners have been documenting which crops are more or less impactful on the soil, and we will increasingly see these ecological and nutritional considerations in our future farming.
Human beings face one of the greatest challenges ever.
The future, already in the making today, is a restorative agriculture which restores the soil, water, nutrition, community, jobs and economy. Restorative farming also restores the human spirit in harmony with the natural world. What a great adventure we are undertaking. His next book on the Bioneers will be out in Spring, 1997. The Light Party.