To whom in the natural farming group may know : In my walnut orchard irrigated through "Poritex" - a textile fibre which exudates water all along its...
... no 115 ... This is a good point. I remember reading that too much of one animal (pest) meant that something was out of balance. I wish I had the article...
Dear friend. Before NF I was very much afraid with Ants, all the time I was using insecticide but nothing happened. After NF when I was able to scatter straws...
... We live in a age of communication in which information arrives everywhere instantaneously and all the time without respite. On the downside, most don't...
Dear Dieter, I can quite understand your frustration, I have also spent time on and off over the last 6 or so years writing sometimes long-windedly, sometimes...
hii, im monica.i would like to cultivate vanilla in my garden.can u tell me some information about its cultivation? ... From: Dieter Brand <diebrand@...>...
... Jamie, I guess we just have to agree to disagree on this one, if words are to have a meaning then natural farming is farming, is farming, is ... And no...
Dear Dieter, Fukuoka used what he called a 'methodless method' and he came to it not through human ingenuity but by letting go all knowledge. It is true that I...
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Jan 3, 2008 4:13 pm
... Dieter Brand wrote: I guess we just have to agree to disagree on this one, if words are to have a meaning then natural farming is farming, is farming, is...
Jamie, "methodless method", you like these things, just as you like Meister Eckehart, the dancing Wu-Li Masters (or was that someone else?) and so many other...
Dieter: Yes, the problem in one word is: Ideology. The mind of the True Believer is so beguiled by concepts that it avoids practical experience that might...
Larry, Welcome back! Thanks for trying to mediate, but don't worry, we are not at each other's throat, it's all very civilized. I wouldn't write off NF, or...
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Jan 3, 2008 6:53 pm
Jamie, isn't it american indian languages that don't have separate nouns and verbs? No thing is thought of separate from what it does or what you do with it....
Hi Larry, Let me second Dieter's welcome back. One update long overdue on your site is to expand the "stars" section. When that sidereal mapping was made,...
There is a reason why there aren't many successful NF examples of big, (lot of acres) farms, growing food for lots of people. It was never meant to work that...
Patty, No offence at all. I was saying that, as far as I could see, if ants can find shelter they will multiply in direct proportion to the food available and...
Hi, I agree with Dieter's complaint that Fukuoka farming has not made much of an impression world-wide. Some types of alternative farming have been able to...
Calin, Bob et al. Why do we have to limit the size of farms to no more than one acre? In some places, 1 acre may be enough, in others, with poorer soil, 10...
Hi, If the method works, use it, whether for a small garden container or a 10-mile field. What is Fukuoka farming? His rice farming and orchard farming are...
Dieter my friend! I side with you, why not indeed to incorporate into NF some ideas of a diferent schools? What's wrong with burying the seed 1/2 sm beneath...
'Jacke and Toensmeier give this in a nutshell: "Create a stable, resilient garden ecosystem, driven by solar energy, that largely maintains and renews itself"...
Limits should be self imposed and different from one location to another. Yet they are important, because without limits one would be dealing and wheeling, ...
exerpt from"the road back to nature"; "let me return a bit to my visit in vienna, where i stayed before going on to italy. a little incident occurred during a...
Dear Calin you seem to think that tilling is evil. Why evil? It is a religous concept I think. Is it relevant here? Unwise I can understand. Against nature I...
Thanks to you all, dogmatists and pragmatists alike, good discussion. I guess that could have been me, getting up Fukuoka's nose, had I been there in Vienna. ...
Calin, I had the impression that the problem is that farmers cannot earn enough money not that they earn too much. That is why most small farmers in the...
Dear Robin, you write: "you are suppressed from mentioning certain subjects, you may feel forced to start speaking in a sort of coded estoteric doublespeak, to...
Do not quarrel about Fukuoka. He chose the way of the peace. Here is another way of approaching its work: read Tao Te King of Lao Tseu. Friendly. Olivier...
