Treehugger Organic Farms
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. - Masanobu Fukuoka
Brenda
Bloom where you are planted.
http://restfultrailsfoodforestgarden.blogspot.com/
Idle dreamer
Paul Cereghino- Stewardship Institute
Maritime Temperate Coniferous Rainforest - Mild Wet Winter, Dry Summer
Brenda
Bloom where you are planted.
http://restfultrailsfoodforestgarden.blogspot.com/
Idle dreamer
Our Microgreens: http://www.microortaggi.it
- It looks to me like you're intelligent enough to know that the monoculture is due to a disturbance or imbalance which nature hasn't had the time to correct. Many other's are starting to understand that also, although we are definitely in the minority.Cal Edon wrote:You're missing the point. ...
You can't learn much about ecology by looking at a solid understory of garlic mustard, or a dead forest covered in kudzu. Someone using those observations for inspiration would probably conclude that 1) monocultures are normal,
- While many will jump to these conclusions spoon fed to them by big ag and big government, luckily there's the beacon of hope that groups like we have here present. There's a good number of people, which seems to be growing pretty rapidly, who are willing to honestly try to observe nature and learn from its solutions. Unfortunately for us, many of nature's solutions take longer than the rise and fall of our civilizations, making it pretty hard for us to observe anything from start to finish. Here's your chance for observing nature in action: study these areas of monoculture and try to identify the successions that are taking place so that we might be able to take advantage of this knowledge. I guarantee that on a long enough time scale with no interference from us nature will begin to balance things on it's own, the question is, would we decide that the solution is acceptable to us.Cal Edon wrote: and 2) we need to use potent weapons like pesticides to beat back nature, or else it will smother all our crops beneath rampant wild growth.
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Cal Edon wrote:You're missing the point.
Where I live, the original ecological equilibrium was destroyed. And no new one has truly formed - the succession has never been allowed to complete itself, and invasive plants have been taking over niches that were once filled by natives, displacing everything that relied upon them, and erasing the complex relationships that existed between them.
You can't learn much about ecology by looking at a solid understory of garlic mustard, or a dead forest covered in kudzu. Someone using those observations for inspiration would probably conclude that 1) monocultures are normal, and 2) we need to use potent weapons like pesticides to beat back nature, or else it will smother all our crops beneath rampant wild growth.
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