To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry. β¨ Wendell Berry (2009). Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food, p.75, Counterpoint Press
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