{"id":3492,"date":"2014-06-13T06:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2014-06-13T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:00:35","slug":"jack-london-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/jack-london-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack London: did you know…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….he got there first.\u00a0 (Well, sort of)<\/p>\n

Back when I was writing as “ED” for the old NADA website I re-discovered Louis Bromfield.\u00a0 As a little city boy in Chicago I can remember my parents reading aloud Malabar Farm<\/em>.\u00a0 Clearly it meant a good deal to them since they not only\u00a0read it to each other but to their kids.\u00a0 And\u00a0we couldn’t have been farther from farming.\u00a0 But we all sat around the kitchen table after dinner and\u00a0speculated about a life we’d never know.<\/p>\n

Fast forward another 50 years and a time\u00a0when\u00a0Wooz and I\u00a0determined to be better stewards of\u00a0the land. \u00a0I came across Bromfield once again and quoted him often in “ED’s Blog<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

But I was surprised to learn the other day that Jack London got there first….using sustainable ag techniques almost 50 years earlier.\u00a0 Most little boys of my generation were familiar with “Call of the Wild”; later I was interested in him as a newspaper man.\u00a0 Interesting that both London and Bromfield started as writers and went to farming.\u00a0 What had they learned?\u00a0 Both pretty much forgotten now.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2014\/06\/jack-londons-futuristic-farm\/<\/a><\/p>\n

And an excerpt:<\/p>\n

‘I am rebuilding worn-out hillside lands that were worked out and destroyed by our wasteful California pioneer farmers. \u00a0I believe the soil is our one indestructible asset, and by green manures, nitrogen-gathering cover crops, animal manure, rotation of crops, proper tillage and draining, I am getting results which the Chinese have demonstrated for forty centuries.’ <\/em>\u00a0~Jack London 1915<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….he got there first.\u00a0 (Well, sort of) Back when I was writing as “ED” for the old NADA website I re-discovered Louis Bromfield.\u00a0 As a little city boy in Chicago I can remember my parents reading aloud Malabar Farm.\u00a0 Clearly it meant a good deal to them since they not only\u00a0read it to each other but to their kids.\u00a0 And\u00a0we couldn’t have been farther from farming.\u00a0 But we all sat around the kitchen table after dinner and\u00a0speculated about a life we’d never know. Fast forward another 50 years and a time\u00a0when\u00a0Wooz and I\u00a0determined to be better stewards of\u00a0the land. \u00a0I came across Bromfield once again and quoted him often in “ED’s Blog“. But I was surprised to learn the other day that Jack London got there first….using sustainable ag techniques almost 50 years earlier.\u00a0 Most little boys of my generation were familiar with “Call of the Wild”; later I was interested in him as a newspaper man.\u00a0 Interesting that both London and Bromfield started as writers and went to farming.\u00a0 What had they learned?\u00a0 Both pretty much forgotten now. http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2014\/06\/jack-londons-futuristic-farm\/ And an excerpt: ‘I am rebuilding worn-out hillside lands that were worked out and destroyed by our wasteful California pioneer farmers. \u00a0I believe the soil is our one indestructible asset, and by green manures, nitrogen-gathering cover crops, animal manure, rotation of crops, proper tillage and draining, I am getting results which the Chinese have demonstrated for forty centuries.’ \u00a0~Jack London 1915<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jack-london","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}