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A Farmer’s Hands

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

Posted by Kate Spring in Wildness

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body, farming, nature, soil, summer, wildness

Soil has worked itself deep into the crevices of my skin, along the outside edges of my forefingers, where I grab at knotweed and plantain, twist the roots of grass and pull them from beds.

It colors the half-moons of my fingernails and stains beneath the tips.

On my palms, three callouses rise on each hand, trailing from the base of the middle fingers in a slant to my pinkies.  I didn’t notice their summer return until a chef-friend (with impeccably clean hands) pointed them out as he looked at the engraving of the arctic landscape on my wedding ring.

That was a month ago.  Now they rise from soft valleys, blunt peaks born from hoe and shovel.

Enough scrubbing could clean my fingernails for one night, though the next day the soil would again find its place on my body.

And the callouses–what else is there to do but celebrate the mirror of mountains on my palms.

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From The Soul of Soil

16 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by Kate Spring in Sustainable Agriculture

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farming, nature, soil, spirituality

“There is a strong spiritual bond between humans and the other living souls with whom we share this planet.  In today’s fast-paced world, the music of that bond sometimes gets lost.  Soil, like humans, has soul because it contains the universal life-force.  This is the difference between soil and dirt–life energy.”

-Bill Wolf, from the Forward in The Soul of Soil

May we all find and share the universal life-force today.

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Welcome to The Good Heart Life: an organic gardening and lifestyle blog where we grow beauty, joy, and nourishment for the body, soul, and earth. I'm Kate Spring: organic farmer, mother, and chief inspiration officer at Good Heart Farmstead and The Good Heart Life. Grow along with us, and together we'll cultivate a more lively, joyful world one {organic} seed at a time.

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