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Farming done right

 
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I've done enough of this stuff to know pros when I see them. Check this out

Ethiopia: The New Gondar

(no subs, those with short attention spans or tight budgets for time can feel free to skip around a bit. Skip to 2:45 to jump right in)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AavOJtcMWA

Watch them! The descend on the field like a flock of birds! Check out the flagging 20 minutes or so in.... I'm pretty sure they're flagging out alternate plantings and coordination and staging areas with various seeds types. I bet they even have runners for seed resupply. And that trick with the pop bottles? Killer
 
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I've embedded the video below for you.

 
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I don't know, they call it "Zero Budget Farming" but it looks an awful lot like permaculture to me.



Anyone speak Hindi (I think... Tamil maybe?)?
 
Can you really tell me that we aren't dealing with suspicious baked goods? And then there is this tiny ad:
A rocket mass heater heats your home with one tenth the wood of a conventional wood stove
http://woodheat.net
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