Given the nature of agriculture in this country and the effects of rising populations both here and globally, it is time to re-examine the virtues of a stable productive yeoman farming sector. In the global South and through its myriad advocates, this sector is often referred to as the peasantry but re-imagining it and seeing it for what it truly is, a free landholding eco-management sector, brings many possibilities. Continue reading “In Defence of A Modern Yeomanry – Small mixed farms as the answer.”
Fractional Farming
Fractional farming is a way of understanding the process of life creation. If we can retain the free energy of the sun in varying forms on the land of which we are custodians, then we are given the opportunity to increase our sunlight credits. As each unit of feed passes through an action – digestion, composting, plant growth – we are able to add more of the sun’s radiant light to our store of organic matter. Continue reading “Fractional Farming”
What Is Regenerative Gardening Really?
Benefits of Regenerative Gardening
Regenerative gardening is a process whereby the gardener focuses on the soil health above all else. From this starting point all else flows. We can either grow veggies or flowers or create a space for pollinators or a playground for children but the underlying principle is that we focus on the soil. Continue reading “What Is Regenerative Gardening Really?”
Why the World Needs Regeneration
Soil
Today we’re going to discuss regeneration in particular regeneration of the soil and ecosystems. Over the last 50 to 75 years, basically since the second world war we’ve gone through a period of destruction. In effect a faustian bargain in which we gave up 1% of our topsoil every year in return for production returns. Continue reading “Why the World Needs Regeneration”
The Henry Ford Approach to Food Production ~ Why you shouldn’t!
What gets sold is not what is reality. Bucolic idyll, green fields, stock roaming free, warm but not too hot, sunlight, all combining to give an image of healthy individuals engaged in a process of accumulating a surplus from the endless bounty of Nature. Continue reading “The Henry Ford Approach to Food Production ~ Why you shouldn’t!”
What is Food?
Food
Everything eats everything else. Every living thing draws its needs from other living things. This is a result of natural selection. Its consequence is the output equals input system of Nature. There is no “waste” in this system. Dead things become input for living things. Continue reading “What is Food?”
Change Underground System ~ Philosophical Underpinnings
There are four outcomes from this philosophy:
- No digging
- No weeding
- No bare soil
- A closed system
The philosophy on which The Change Underground System stands is the mimicking of nature. Nature does not dig, weed, allow ground to stand bare nor operate an open system. Continue reading “Change Underground System ~ Philosophical Underpinnings”