Growing the Sense-Organ of the Farm

Thoughts from The Philosophy of Freedom

Like a human being, in its childhood, a young farm is almost entirely a sense organ.¹ In its infancy, a farm takes rather more than it gives. A preexisting rhythm becomes enclosed within a skin, and the farm organism develops its own pulse, not unlike the way an embryo develops itself as a sheath of pulsing, growing, expanding information. So the farm be…