Hendricks Farms and Dairy now offers services to local land holders (individuals, municipalities, corporations, utilities and governments), with sufficient open space, to have their lands holistically managed and improved via our grazing and natural resource stewardship programs. Please contact trent@hendricksfarmsanddairy.com for more information.
Learn more about Holistic Management at
www.holisticmanagement.org
“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a
community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in
that community, but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in order that there
may be a place to compete for).
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of
the community to include soils, waters, plants, and
animals, or collectively: the land.
This sounds simple: do we not already sing our love
for and obligation to the land of the free and the
home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom
do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are
sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the
waters, which we assume have no function except
to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage.
Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate
whole communities without batting an eye.
Certainly not the animals, of which we have already
extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful
species. A land ethic of course cannot prevent the
alteration, management, and use of these ‘resources,’
but it does affirm their right to continued existence,
and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a
natural state.
In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the landcommunity
to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members,
and also respect for the community as such.”
Aldo Leopold 1887 - 1948
All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever. 1 Peter 1:24
community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in
that community, but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in order that there
may be a place to compete for).
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of
the community to include soils, waters, plants, and
animals, or collectively: the land.
This sounds simple: do we not already sing our love
for and obligation to the land of the free and the
home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom
do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are
sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the
waters, which we assume have no function except
to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage.
Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate
whole communities without batting an eye.
Certainly not the animals, of which we have already
extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful
species. A land ethic of course cannot prevent the
alteration, management, and use of these ‘resources,’
but it does affirm their right to continued existence,
and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a
natural state.
In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the landcommunity
to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members,
and also respect for the community as such.”
Aldo Leopold 1887 - 1948
All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever. 1 Peter 1:24