Amani Carroccio

Every winter I spend hours in the office, thumbing through the files collected from the summer. Schedules, lectures, handouts, outlines, evaluations; pages and pages of information to assist me in planning next year's agroecology internship. Every year I try to include more information on gardening, herbalism, wildcrafting, permaculture, and biodynamics. More readings, more exercises, more field trips...so much to cover in three months. Then reality hits, as I leaf through the file marked canceled. Lectures never given, field trips never visited, exercises never completed. It's then I remember: "More is not important."

In three months interns only taste a piece of Lost Valley, a glimpse of farming, a peak into their process. This short season we share is about a lot more than lectures, seminars, or field trips. It's much more than growing our own food.