Vegetables Front and Center

Vegetables Front and Center

Veggies on the cover of Mother Earth News? What a nice surprise. I was beginning to wonder if I had subscribed to People magazine. Thank you for omitting the celebrities from this issue. It was wonderful to read helpful articles about fencing, gardening, farming and more, without having to waste my time flipping past the famous-people stories. Hope you publish more magazines like this outstanding issue.

Terry White
Sprague River, Oregon

Celebrities Welcome

Keep up the wonderful way you are incorporating stars of film and television who are promoting and supporting environmental protection and betterment for all of us on this fragile gift we are given called EARTH.

James Carlson Jr.
Paw Paw, Illinois

Recruiting Allies

I am a longtime subscriber to Mother. I would like to respond to the complaints regarding articles about celebrities. I have a feeling that some people who would not otherwise pick up a copy of Mother may just do so to read such an article, and may just read some of the other articles, and even may think more about their choices as a result of it. Sounds like a good hope to me. Keep at it, Mom.

Jan Mills
Banks, Oregon

U.S. Isn’t Negligent

Your article “Bob Redford’s Quest” (December/January 2006) was very biased in implying the United States is “playing Nero while the planet burns.” This is simply not true. Even though the article was about Robert Redford, you did a disservice by implying that Kyoto is the only option to solve our climate disruption woes and that the United States is negligent in environmental matters.

Marcia A. Hintz
Grand Rapids, Ohio

Honoring our Storytellers

Your interview with Robert Redford brought to mind a very powerful moment in my life as a writer. I was privileged to hear Elie Wiesel speak at the University of Houston. He spoke of the liberation of Auschwitz, where he previously had been held prisoner. He said that, at that time, Jews around the world began to hope that the truth finally might be told about the treatment of Jews in Europe. He said they believed that once the evil was exposed, this kind of thing could never happen again. Yet, he said, today we look around the world and see the same evil happening.

At the end of his talk, Wiesel held out one avenue of hope: faithfulness to telling people’s stories. Storytellers, he said, were the only ones who could stop the progression of evil.

As Redford has, let us honor the tellers and the telling by attending to them. There is our hope.

Paula DeMichele
Ashtabula, Ohio