standing in the shadows of heroes

One of the great things about the crop mob is the ability to go and do a few hours of work on an experienced farm.  It doesn’t happen all the time, and it isn’t something that is in the whole design of the mob, but when it happens it is humbling for everyone involved.

The experienced farmer is humbled by the presence of what constitutes a large sampling of the next generation of practitioners of sustainable agriculture, showing up on their farm, to work along side them and step through the same rows.

The mobbers are humbled by the ease with which they have access to lessons learned and practical advice, not only on that day but from that day forward until – if it is even possible – the relationship is exhausted.

But then maybe humbled isn’t the right word.  Awe?  Wonder?

Which leads to an opening of the debate on who is standing in who’s shadow…