Ode to Joe the Farmer

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A Love Letter to Joe the Farmer

by Guest Blogger, Leslie Goldman

I thank you now for all the times I never thanked a farmer.
I’m eating locally grown organic food and thinking of you
with a renewed appreciation! Thanks for growing food for me.
I accept my responsibility, more now, toward sustaining
healthy agriculture.

Please accept my gratitude for the caring positive spirit you,
your family and workers give each day to the earth
in my behalf. You labor through the hot sun, the rain,
the difficulties of natural calamity and man-made insensitivity
to do what it takes to grow food in harmony with building fertile soil.

Because of you, I have food to grow into all I can be,
and build a body and mind to give my seed dreams expression.
Breathe easier in knowing I understand.

I am with you. I join you in growing the Enchanted Garden,
a name for our renewed earth, that can only be grown one plant
at a time, one person at a time, one step at a time, organically!

I bless that you as a salad grower have as many salad eaters
to satisfy your every need. What you do daily
is for the good health of generations to come.

I will tell others. I will more reverently say,
“I am a friend of the farm” so you, your parents,
and offspring can say, “Happiness is Organic!”
Rest in loving arms each eve. I will support consumer education
through consuming with awareness.

Thanks for keeping my doctor bills at a minimum;
I can live with it if my main doctor turns out to be
my farmer and Mother Earth my insurance agent!

You are a national treasure, earth based homeland security.
“Lettuce” grow together!

Leslie Goldman and His Sidekick Beet Plant

Leslie Goldman is a San Diego, California real food activist and a national voice for organic agriculture. As a young man, Leslie found healing for crippling arthritis by learning about food as medicine. He is a protege of the late Dr. Bernard Jensen, a leading natural health advocate and the author of more than 50 books including Goat Milk Magic.

Leslie is coming to Washington, D.C. the week of September 21, to attend The Organic Summit, and will be speaking at a screening of Farmageddon in Northern Virginia on September 24. Leslie is known in California as The Enchanted Gardener, and he is given credit in the forward of The Ultimate Gardener a book by Charlie Nardozzi, who consulted with the White House organic garden. Leslie’s Plant Your Dream blog is the number one blog on Cure Zone, with 3.6 million page views. Cure Zone is a leading alternative self help health website. Leslie is bringing his message of hope to Washington for a brighter future through support for whole foods and local agriculture.