Hello Everyone, there has been a tremendous amount written recently (not least by me) and yet I haven't learnt anything to help me in my approach or practice...
Hi Jamie, Thanks for bringing back the focus. Do you know of anyone with direct experience of the Fukuoka-Bonfils method of growing winter wheat? I am starting...
Hi John, Jamie, and all, John Jeavons' mail-order seed catalog at "Bountiful Gardens" regularly offers several ancient wheat varieties, including Early Stone...
Hello John, I replied to a personal email sent asking the same question the other day and had not replied to your earlier post to the group because I thought...
Hello Robert, your email is, as usual, packed with information - and questions! I'll just apply myself to a single point (and not only is it a single point but...
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AaronBrachfeld@...
Jun 3, 2003 6:11 pm
Your points, Jamie, are well stated. But, I think that the competitiveness of NF in a capitalist market is completely dependent upon the desires of the farmer:...
Lurker here. No-till weed gardener. I would think determining the requirements - or better, the preferences of the plants we're attempting to cultivate and...
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AaronBrachfeld@...
Jun 4, 2003 2:18 am
I couldn't agree with you more, Mike! Agriculture is a relationship between a person and plants and animals, getting to know what every(body) likes is...
I Jamie and all of you ... website and have emailed Larry, but have yet to receive a reply - does anyone know if Larry is still involved or have his interests...
Hello Beatrice, thanks for the response - just to be clear, I'm not saying I don't get a website when I type in www.fukuokafarmingol.net, but that I get ...
Hello Aaron, I think you know by now I'd be nervous of trying to fit anything into a simple linear equation. It might also be worthwhile trying to see how (or...
Hello Michael, no tomatoes coming from this direction! You're right to question Robert's concerns about yields being reduced on NF farms. Certainly individual...
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Michiyo Shibuya
michiyos@...
Jun 4, 2003 9:53 am
Hello, it's been a while since my last post. From my limited expereince and from what I have seen, natural farming seems to reduce the output, I mean, of...
Hello Michiyo, good to hear from you again. You write: "But the concept of natural farming contradicts with the commercial activity(making money), so isn't...
Hi Michael, Aaron, Jamie, and Michiyo, There are crops that grow in the shade of the forest, but the staple foods (such as rice, wheat, oats, millet, corn,...
Well, I'm at the very beginning of trying to turn a life hobby of growing odd plants (and garden plants) into a little nursery now that I have a couple acres...
Hi Bob and all, What a fascinating story about your banana tree experience. Being a very avid banana-eater, I remember reading somewhere about the potency of...
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AaronBrachfeld@...
Jun 4, 2003 6:36 pm
My experimental data seems to indicate that my sustainability equation describes an agricultural operation well, though I am only in my 8th year of testing and...
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Tim Peters
psr@...
Jun 4, 2003 7:53 pm
..." Mathematics can describe with accuracy the natural world, if the mathematician spends enough effort in perfecting the equation. It's like poetry.".... ...
Hello Aaron and Tim, there is Godel's proof (or rather disproof) of the ultimate impossibility of meaning within a single form (language and mathematics) but...
Hello Fukuokans! I must confess to not being able to keep up with the postings. I have just returned from a 6 day romantic vacation in a distant city and am...
Letting my strawberries stay almost buried in the weeds that came up around them was the best thing I have ever done for them. Mike and I have talked about...
. I don't know about my ... In an established blacberry patch in nature ,there is not one weed among them ,they makes sure to shade the aera fully . and they...
... living model with the new physics developed early in the last century. Alas, although the new sciences are almost a hundred years old. the huge majority of...
... seems ... the economic exchange of foods thru money is flawed as the value is on weight . THis doesn't say anything about the nutritional value of the food...
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AaronBrachfeld@...
Jun 5, 2003 6:37 pm
I agree that the complexity of the natural world is too great to be defined mathematically, but what I am trying to define is human-made: as the amount of work...
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AaronBrachfeld@...
Jun 5, 2003 8:04 pm
Raspberries, sunflowers and countless other species prefer only the company of their own kind. Others like Cilantro/Corriander withstand even the rigors of...
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AaronBrachfeld@...
Jun 5, 2003 8:04 pm
Where do you sell your flowers, and how? How many flowers do you harvest? I was actually just thinking about planting larkspur and bachellor buttons and...
