From WKCD Project Profile: The Food Project |
The Soil Man I am a hard worker with blackened hands.
Hand that are filled with the opportunity to create life.
I use tools to help create and to make a small world.
Sometimes there are people helping me.
Some younger, others older than I, but all with blackened hands.
Water drips from their faces as well as mine because of the
sun’s rays beaming on us intensely.
At first I’d look across an empty field filled with rocks, weeds,
and dirt, but as the summer continues on,
the beauty of growing crops that I worked so hard for fills the field.
Some people say why would I waste my time doing what I do?
I just say I like the results and I am the soil man.
—by Michael Holloway, 18, after his first month with The Food Project