Industrial Agriculture; What a Waste.

Here we are all of us residing in the U.S. Living on land that was inhabited by a people who knew good stewardship of the land. I am of course speaking of the Indians. They knew how to take care of the land so it could take care of them. Here we are depleting the very source of our existence, mother earth. We are an advanced civilization who needs to take a few steps back in order to go forward. What I mean is industrial production of our food is depleting the soils and using 10 calories of fuel to make 1 calorie of food. This is obviously unsustainable and extremly wasteful.
For the first time in a long time small farms are on a come back in this nation, thanks to a little organic garden on the Whitehouse lawn. The Obama administration gets it. Or at least he has admited that the agribusiness is based on fossil fuels.
We need to put the land first and most everything else in order of prority behind land usage. We are an economy based on agriculture. If our agriculture practices are unsustainable then we are unsustainable. We need new farming practices. For example people need to start growing their own food small home gardens or "victory gardens" as they were called back in WWII. The citizens of this great nation need to get some dirt under their fingernails. Stop expecting everyone else to do everything for us. As far a giants agricorps I hope these new prenennial hybreds Wes Jackson is coming up with can help restore the bread basket of America. I am hopeful that with education and new innovations we can keep the health of our land an indeed the world for future generations to come.