Why I Became a Tree-Hugging,
Granola Cruncher
Part 2
A common theme among military members (at least when I was
in) is to marry young, have children young and get divorced… well young. I was fortunate to meet the woman of my
dreams not long after my divorce and we will celebrate 20 years of loving
married life next month. I told my wife
when we met that I would end up with my kids which she didn’t believe until
they moved in with us full time just weeks after we got married.
I love my wife and my children dearly. There has always been a lot of love in our house;
it’s a theme we live by “Live Life with Love” and one we share with our friends
and family. That attitude has a very
nice way of leading to happy and good times.
We thought we had it all when our younger daughter left home. Finally we had a chance to enjoy life without
kids in the house. Our older daughter had
left a couple of years earlier, got married, brought us a beautiful
granddaughter and then got pregnant with our grandson. As is so often the case of young marriages,
she got divorced and moved in with us when our granddaughter Claire was 18
months old and her brother Ricky came about 5 months later nothing compares to
grandchildren!
It wasn’t long after Claire’s birth that I started learning
about and getting involved with organics.
I had worked with organic produce before but years ago it was nothing
more than a marketing tool. As I learned
about organics and healthy eating, I started getting healthier myself and my
wife got healthier too. When my daughter
and Claire moved in they started eating healthier with us and great results
soon followed. Ricky joined in last year
and is truly a specimen of health.
As I learned more and more about healthy eating, healthy
lifestyles and everything that goes with that I started learning about the
importance of a healthy planet. I also
learned that there are policies that our government promotes that are not only
unhealthy for our people but unhealthy for the planet. I took a course revolving around the world’s
food practices and the absolutely unsustainable nature of the food systems in
place. The worst part of that is that a
few billionaires are set up to become bigger billionaires all with the support
and actual subsidization of our government while future generations may not
even be able to survive.
Our planet is warming up.
We have already increased our annual average temperature by 1 degree Fahrenheit
which doesn’t sound like much but 4.5 is believed to be the threshold for life;
which makes 1 sound like a very large number to me. We are losing topsoil at an alarming rate and
may not be able to farm classic farmland much longer. We are literally mortgaging our children’s,
grandchildren’s and future generation’s ability to live so that a handful of
people can profit today.
Going organic can and does reverse much of the damage! Organic farming promotes humus which holds
carbon in the soil. It literally builds
living arable soil from dead dirt taking a holistic approach to soil which also
increases the nutrition of the food grows in it. We have the capability to quite literally
save the world and it starts with that first step of going organic.
For my wife and me I am not worried. We are still pretty young but we have had a
long time of a great life. For my
children and grandchildren I find there really is no choice but to try and
create a better world for them; we owe it to them That is
a large part of why I am a proud Tree-Hugging, Granola-Crunching, organic
living advocate!
More than seven billion people
Seven continents
Two thousand Islands
One hundred ninety six countries
More than seventy distinct religious faiths
One planet
One ocean
One atmosphere
One sun
One great ecosystem
Created Organic
© 2013 Richard E. Robinson
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