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We have lost too much in the name of progress Joyce M. Coomer Years ago, farmers weren't OCD about mowing EVERYTHING on their farm into the ground as they are now. Groves of trees were left in pastures as shade for livestock, which did the "mowing" of the pastures. In the process of grazing, livestock would graze around a blackberry sprout and in a few years there would be a nice blackberry bramble with plenty of berries. Farmers didn't use herbicides and pesticides (other than some "bean dust" when beetles were threatening the pole bean crop), and didn't keep fencerows obsessively cleaned out. Fields that were no longer cultivated, and left to their own devices, also supplied good crops of blackberries. When a timberland was logged, the laps were left laying hither and yon, and within a few years there would be a good crop of blackberries, along with other fruit and seed producing plants to feed wildlife. The timberland was left to restore itself, not wantonly dozed into submission and sown with grass to be mown at least once a week just to look "neat." We have lost too much in the name of "progress" -- things which, I fear, we will never be able to replace. A bumper crop of blackberries is just one of many. This story was posted on 2016-05-15 13:43:32
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