I don't have a direct line, backslider and frequent sinner that I am, but I'm convinced Chris is doing the Lord's work in calling us all on water quality. One of the problems is immersion; we are in a sea of corn and just don't "see" it until someone like Chris calls it out. I am living on 60 acres, part of the farm that I and my family …
I don't have a direct line, backslider and frequent sinner that I am, but I'm convinced Chris is doing the Lord's work in calling us all on water quality. One of the problems is immersion; we are in a sea of corn and just don't "see" it until someone like Chris calls it out. I am living on 60 acres, part of the farm that I and my family have owned for generations. Mine is in CRP (thanks for paying your taxes!) but it used to be row cropped, cattle pasture and we raised hundreds of hogs when I was a kid. I remember 60ish years ago when kids would come over for overnights from town and ask "WHAT is that smell?" as the scent of hogs broached their delicate olfactory senses. We would respond" What smell?" . We were so immersed in it daily that we couldn't smell the hog manure 100 yards from the house. Same with the corn all around my home now, I didn't "see" it until I began reading Chris' stuff a few years back. And it never dawned on me what my family, friends and neighbors are doing to the Cedar River an eighth of a mile from my house. Thanks for helping to open up my eyes!
I don't have a direct line, backslider and frequent sinner that I am, but I'm convinced Chris is doing the Lord's work in calling us all on water quality. One of the problems is immersion; we are in a sea of corn and just don't "see" it until someone like Chris calls it out. I am living on 60 acres, part of the farm that I and my family have owned for generations. Mine is in CRP (thanks for paying your taxes!) but it used to be row cropped, cattle pasture and we raised hundreds of hogs when I was a kid. I remember 60ish years ago when kids would come over for overnights from town and ask "WHAT is that smell?" as the scent of hogs broached their delicate olfactory senses. We would respond" What smell?" . We were so immersed in it daily that we couldn't smell the hog manure 100 yards from the house. Same with the corn all around my home now, I didn't "see" it until I began reading Chris' stuff a few years back. And it never dawned on me what my family, friends and neighbors are doing to the Cedar River an eighth of a mile from my house. Thanks for helping to open up my eyes!
thanks for the kind words Kevin and for following the substack!