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Monday, 14 January 2013
tomorrow i will post new entry about aquaponics .. Enjoy your visit and hope it’s beneficial to both you and me. ^_^
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Sunday, 13 January 2013
Sustainable Living and the Self Sufficiency Lifestyle
This sustainable living site differs from other websites on self sufficiency because here weshare our real-life experience – from the research that’s inspired us, to the hands-on Permaculture techniques we are using to achieve it on our small farm in Western Australia.
hSustainable living is defined as...
.."a lifestyle that can be sustained without exhausting natural resources…"
- That is: living simply and efficiently, and making everything we do use go as far as possible and achieve as much for us as possible!
- Self sufficiency - providing much of your own needs – is an important strategy to achieve this.
- It is sobering to realize that self sufficiency and sustainable living are necessities of life for 80% of the world’s people. By comparison even the poorest of us in western societies would be considered very wealthy indeed.
- And our ecological footprint (impact on the planet) is 8 to 12 times
- that of people in developing nations.
But are we any happier?
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- The happiness research I’ve been poring through strongly indicates that we are not!
- This may explain why materially well-endowed westerners are turning their backs on conspicuous consumption in droves.
- In fact, it's emerging as a mega-trend in Western societies. There are many names for it – downshifting, eco-frugalism, voluntary simplicity… At the core is the desire to live a simpler life, achieving authentic happiness while using fewer resources.
- Whatever is behind your quest for sustainable living it is a valuable journey that can achieve many things:
• Sustainable Health:
Good health is a prerequisite to personal sustainability. Your pathway to good health starts with adequate nutrition, something that modern foods just CAN'T deliver.
• Environmentally responsible living:
Over-consumption is the root cause of all our environmental problems. Everything we use and then dispose of inflates our ecological footprint burden on the planet. Green consumption and simple living is the only authentic solution. environment and lifestyle sustainability
•Time to live:
Many of us are caught in the wheel of the rat-race to support our addiction to conspicuous consumption and maintain the illusion of material prosperity. Simple living offers an escape from the live-to-work trap, freeing time for the things that matter.
Many of us are caught in the wheel of the rat-race to support our addiction to conspicuous consumption and maintain the illusion of material prosperity. Simple living offers an escape from the live-to-work trap, freeing time for the things that matter.
• Financial freedom:
It’s simple really - the less you need, the further what you have will go. And establishing a modest income from a low-key business working at home can keep you going indefinitely…
• Future shock security:
Many global trends are gathering momentum – for example, looming climate change, peak oil, and financial meltdown. All significantly threaten western living standards. Learning to live more with less is a logical preparation strategy.
Our sustainable living goals encompass all of these. Agritourism (reconnecting with the local food supply) is a good place to start, progressing to becoming more personally self sufficient. And, like other families downshifting to sustainable living we’re taking the opportunity to teach our children about sustainability and self sufficiency skills.introducing concept sustainability children
In sharing our journey with you…
…we hope to inspire and inform, while creating what we hope will be one of the best websites on self sufficiency lifestyle around. recycling and lifestyle and sustainability
If you are looking for personal sustainability facts and information as well as different methods of achieving self sufficiency and personal sustainability at home or on a small farm you've come to the right place! self sufficiency w
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Small Business Ideas for Farm Living: Our BEST Home Based Income Opportunities
Our proven small business ideas for farm can be your passport to the good life! No need to search home based business opportunities, these succeed! We’ve already been there and found the best home based income opportunities and best home business for woman too.
And of course, on our road to greater happiness, we've also weaned ourselves off mindless materialism, and whittled consumption down to our “enough” point - to make our dream happen that much easier, improve our sustainability, and increase our resilience in the face of looming world changes.
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HOW WE FOUND THE BEST HOME BASED INCOME OPPORTUNITIES
OUR TOP SMALL BUSINESS IDEAS FOR FARM LIVING
If you want to escape the rat race you have to give up being a wage slave. And the only way to do that - without winning Lotto - is to find asustainable source of cash flow that you can generate from home,wherever it is.
And of course, on our road to greater happiness, we've also weaned ourselves off mindless materialism, and whittled consumption down to our “enough” point - to make our dream happen that much easier, improve our sustainability, and increase our resilience in the face of looming world changes.
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HOW WE FOUND THE BEST HOME BASED INCOME OPPORTUNITIES
First we had to re search home based business opportunities. The task was daunting.
So when sorting small business ideas for farm living, we used a few criteria to sift out the best home based income opportunities:
• Location - The success of the business must NOT depend highly on where you live.
• Time - The business shouldn’t take up too much time.
• Setup Cost - It had to be an affordable home based business opportunity – we’re not made of money! And low start up costs also means low risk.
• Profit - Of course, we were after the most profitable small business ideas for farm living.
• Fun - It must be satisfying and meaningful.
• Autonomy - As a couple we wanted separate enterprises (healthier for our relationship and sanity than spending 24/7 working together) so needed to find the best home business for woman and the best for man.
HOW DID WE GO?
After considerable background work, some false starts, a lot of trial and error and tremendous tenacity we have finally succeeded!
Sorry, these are not “get rich quick” schemes… just real, solid, proven enterprises that actually deliver on all the criteria we set for them.
With the reliable cash flow from our proven best home based income opportunities, our dream of country living is now a reality. We are free!
OUR TOP SMALL BUSINESS IDEAS FOR FARM LIVING
• Are you great with animals and not too much of a wimp? This is ourbest home business for woman (and men in touch with their nurturing side….)
• Can you turn on a computer? Want to be part of the HUGE money being made on the Internet? This is the best affordable home based business opportunity for you.
• Like Poultry? Breed Chickens for Profit, and tap into a huge emerging opportunity for small farmers.
• Need Quick Cashflow? Like to buy and sell? Then Start an Ebay Business like we did! This is a small business idea for farm dwellers that works great if you are near a post office a couple of times a week…
- You can get a FREE course to get you started here!
- Apart from these ideas, Graeme has a passion for restoring classic cars (a major reason for building our massive workshop) and plans to make a tidy hobby income doing just that, once we’ve got a house that is.
- Meg is planning other sustainable income streams from running workshops on sustainable living and Permaculture for small farms, and helping people improve property productivity via Permaculture landscape design services.
Natural Home Remedies Old Home Remedies and New Home Health Remedies
- People are increasingly turning to natural home remedies, for a variety of excellent reasons. Home health remedies are an invaluable resource to people who are seeking a simpler life.
- Rather than buying expensive pharmaceutical medicines, it is not only cheaper but also more satisfying to instead reach for free home remedies readily available from your garden or kitchen pantry.
- Another factor fueling burgeoning interest in medical home remedies, is increasing dissatisfaction and suspicion concerning prescription and over-the-counter modern medicines.
- Lobbying by powerful drug companies has spurred continual media attacks aimed at discrediting the value of natural remedies, as well as being behind emerging laws that limit our access to them.
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- This is despite the fact that thousands of people die every year from taking prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Unlike these synthetic drugs, home health remedies are safe, non-toxic, and free of dangerous side-effects.
- Home health remedies allow you to reclaim your right to take responsibility for your own health, using preparations that are safe, simple and highly effective.
- Many of them are old home remedies that have been proven over generations.
- Others – such colloidal silver – were actively promoted and utilized by governments before the emergence of modern alternatives and their “big pharma” lobbyists.
- And still others – such as diatomaceous earth – have only recently been recognized for their amazing versatility and application to dozens of homestead health issues.
The home health remedies we feature here are made with all natural ingredients. They are also easy and cheap to create, and work safely and holistically to restore and support your natural immune system.
We have used all of them personally and can vouch for their effectiveness in the home and farm for humans and livestock.
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• The Amazing Health Benefits Of Colloidal Silver
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• Awesome Vinegar Remedies
Solar and Wind Power Generators, Info and Supplies
- Here you'll find information on wind power generators, off grid and residential solar power information, as well as the things you need to know about battery charger inverters and other essential renewable energy equipment.
- In short, we'll help you choose the right alternative energy supplies to suit your particular needs.
- And you can get it online right here, with great back-up service and guaranteed best prices. We post all over the world every day!
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• Wind Power Generators
Where do wind power generators perform best? How much energy will the wind in your area generate for you? Find out everything you need to know about wind power here.
• Small Scale Manure to Methane Systems
You can make biogas energy with a DIY methane generator. Producing methane from manure using your own small scale waste to energy biogas digester is feasible for many small farms.
• DIY Instructions Build Wind Generator
Are you handy? Want to save a heap of money? You can build your own wind turbine. Full instructions available!
• Off Grid and Residential Solar Power Information
When is solar power better than wind? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? How do the costs compare?
• How to Slash Your Energy Use!
No matter what type of renewable energy system you end up with, one thing is for sure... you have to minimise your energy use. Learn here how to slash your energy use and live within your system's means.
• Choosing the Best Batteries
Only some types of batteries can stand up to the regular drainage and recharge that renewable energy systems put them through.
• Power Inverters
Inverters convert battery power to 240V so you can run appliances off grid. There's a staggering array of choice to suit different circumstances. Here you can get boned up on what type and size will do the job for you.Not sure what size/type of inverter you need?
Our FREE report "The Ten Things You Must Know About Power Inverters" will help you! To get yours now, plus access to other great FREE e-books on sustainable living click here.
You can build your own solar power system that looks great for as little as $200 +. And most of the parts can be found around your home or at the hardware store!
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Raising Chickens: How to Raise Chickens in Your Backyard or Small Farm.
- Chickens are indispensable to self sufficiency. Luckily raising chickens successfully is not rocket-science!
- Learning how to raise chickens is simple enough that anyone can benefit from the many jobs they do, particularly in Permaculture systems.
- For sure, rasing chickens is integral to self sufficiency at any scale.
- Whether you are raising backyard chickens or have a small farm, we have all the right facts about chickens to help you succeed.
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How is Organic Farming Different? Information, Benefits and Tips for Success.
How is organic farming different? We list organic gardening and farming techniques along with practical information on how to succeed at rural or urban organic backyard farming.
HOW IS ORGANIC FARMING DIFFERENT?
An ecological organic vegetable garden where the vegetables sow themselves!
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Traditional organic gardening and farming methods have sustainably nourished humanity for 11,000 years. Indeed, until 50 years ago, all farming was done organically.
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That changed at the end of WWII when war chemicals (e.g. ammonium nitrate for bombs) manufacturers turned to farming as a new market for their products. Modern chemical farming was born, marketed as the “green revolution” that promised to feed the world.
So How IS Organic Farming Different?:
• It doesn’t use synthetic chemicals.
Modern agriculture relies on a range of synthetic chemicals. Crop nutrients are in the form of soluble manufactured fertilizers, which produce weak plants needing protection with chemical herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.
Similarly, animal health in industrialized agriculture relies on chemical pharmaceuticals (e.g. anthelmintics for parasites, pesticides for lice) whereas in organic farming only preparations derived from natural sources are allowed.
Organic farming instead encourages and makes use of natural biological processes – particularly microbial activity – to boost soil fertility and thus plant nutrition, "feeding the soil to feed the plant".
Organic methods offer many benefits to humans and the environment,because chemicals are shunned. Healthy balanced soil grows naturally healthier plants and promotes health in the people and livestock that feed on them.
• A diverse range of crops are grown.
To remain profitable in the face of globalized markets and free trade, farmers have been forced to bigger holdings with simpler cropping systems. Keeping pace, industrialized farming has evolved ever-larger and more specialized machines to do the work of cultivation, sowing, spraying and harvesting. The result is large areas of the same crop type; this is called a monoculture.
Organic farming, on the other hand, embraces a multiple crop philosophy – polyculture. As in nature, such biodiversity adds resiliency and productivity to the system. A wide variety of crops in turn support a wider range of beneficial insects, soil microorganisms, and other factors that contribute to overall farm health.
However, the resulting system is more labor intensive, requiring greater management expertise and observation, all of which nevertheless can be learnt!
LIST: ORGANIC GARDENING AND FARMING TECHNIQUES
Find out how to succeed at rural or urban organic backyard farming by exploring this list:
Organic weed control methods - general principles• Natural weed killer recipes• The newspaper weed control technique
Organic Pest Management: - general principles and recipes• Snail and slug strategies• Organic pest management in fruit trees• Dealing with garden pest wood lice (slaters)• Curbing cucumber bug• Natural control of aphids
Learn more about organic gardening at home of the organic gardener.
Advantages and Disadvantages Organic Farming: Good Things, Barriers and Environmental Effects
- Despite the good things about organic farming why do most farmers still operate by industrialised agriculture?
- Here we explore the pros and cons organic farming presents for consumers and producers, as well as examining the environmental effects of organic farming.
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GOOD THINGS ABOUT ORGANIC FARMING
CONSUMER BENEFITS:
Nutrition
The nutritional value of food is largely a function of its vitamin and mineral content. In this regard, organically grown food is dramatically superior in mineral content to that grown by modern conventional methods.advantages and disadvantages organic farming
Because it fosters the life of the soil organic farming reaps the benefits soil life offers in greatly facilitated plant access to soil nutrients.
Healthy plants mean healthy people, and such better nourished plants provide better nourishment to people and animals alike.
Poison-free advantages and disadvantages organic farming
A major benefit to consumers of organic food is that it is free of contamination with health harming chemicals such as pesticides, fungicides and herbicides.
As you would expect of populations fed on chemically grown foods, there has been a profound upward trend in the incidence of diseases associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in industrialised societies. advantages and disadvantages organic farming advantages and disadvantages organic farming
advantages and disadvantages organic farming advantages and disadvantages organic farming
Take cancer for example. Representative data on the number of new cancer cases in New South Wales, Australia has been collected by the New South Wales Central Cancer Registry.
Adjusted to take account of our ageing population, their graph (above) shows that between 1972 and 2004 the incidence of new cancer cases per year (average for both sexes) has risen from 323 to 488 per 100,000 people. This is an increase of over 50% in just 32 years. advantages and disadvantages organic farming
Food Tastes Better advantages and disadvantages organic farming
Animals and people have the sense of taste to allow them to discern the quality of the food they ingest.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that organically grown food tastes better than that conventionally grown. The tastiness of fruit and vegetables is directly related to its sugar content, which in turn is a function of the quality of nutrition that the plant itself has enjoyed.
This quality of fruit and vegetable can be empirically measured by subjecting its juice to Brix analysis, which is a measure of its specific gravity (density). The Brix score is widely used in
testing fruit and vegetables for their quality prior to export.
testing fruit and vegetables for their quality prior to export.
Food Keeps Longer
Organically grown plants are nourished naturally, rendering the structural and metabolic integrity of their cellular structure superior to those conventionally grown. As a result, organically grown foods can be stored longer and do not show the latter’s susceptibility to rapid mold and rotting.
GROWER BENEFITS: advantages and disadvantages organic farming
A healthy plant grown organically in properly balanced soil resists most diseases and insect pests.
This was proven by US doctor and soil nutrition pioneer Dr Northern who conducted many experiments to test the hypothesis during the 1930’s.
Disease and Pest Resistance
For instance, in an orange grove infested with scale, he restored the mineral balance to part of the soil and the trees growing in that part became clean while the rest remained diseased.
By the same means he grew healthy rosebushes between rows that were riddled by insects, and tomato and cucumber plants, both healthy and diseased, where the vines intertwined. Northern observed that the bugs ate up the diseased and refused to touch the healthy plants!
Weed Competitiveness
Weeds are nature’s band-aids, placed by the wisdom of creation to heal and restore damaged soils. When farmers husband the life of the soil, as they do in organic agriculture, the improved conditions dissuade many weeds and favour their crops. The crops, being healthier, are also better able to compete with those weeds that are present.
Lower Input Costs
By definition, organic farming does not incur the use of expensive agrochemicals – they are not permitted! The greater resistance of their crops to pests and the diseases save farmers significantly in expensive insecticides, fungicides and other pesticides.
Fertilisers are either created in sit by green manuring and leguminous crop rotation or on-farm via composting and worm farming. Bio dynamic farmers use a low cost microbial solution sprayed onto their crops.
The creation of living, fertile soil conditions through early corrective soil re-mineralisation and strategic Key line chisel ploughing are significant establishment costs that, however, reap ongoing benefits to production at minimal maintenance.
Drought Resistance
Organically grown plants are more drought tolerant. This was dramatically illustrated to me several years ago when I was fortunate to attend a workshop with Australian organic gardening guru Peter Bennett. A slide he showed us has stuck in my mind ever since: it was a field of wheat, organically grown on re-minerals soil.
Bisecting the ripening green crop was a wide yellowed strip that had already finished growing and hayed off. He explained that the strip had been nourished using agrochemical fertiliser early in the growing period.
Because chemical fertiliser is soluble, plants are forced to imbibe it every time they are thirsty for water. They can and do enjoy good growth as long as water is readily available. As soon as water becomes limited, however, the soluble nutrient salts in the cells of chemically fed plants are unable to osmotically draw sufficient water to maintain safe dilution. They soon reach toxic concentrations, and the plant stops growing, hays off and dies earlier than it otherwise would have.
Added Value
There is a discerning market of consumers who recognised the greater food value of organic produce and are willing to pay premium prices for it. In an interview with me in 1998, the manager of Heinz-Watties in New Zealand explained how his company had been actively supporting and recruiting farmers to organic production in order to service large and lucrative markets in Japan and Europe.
ORGANIC FARMING DISADVANTAGES
Productivity
Proponents of industrialised agriculture point to its superior productivity. In the short term, this yield is possible by expending massive inputs of chemicals and machinery, working over bland fields of a single crop (monoculture).
However, over the longer time frame, productivity advantages dwindle. In my years working with broad acre farmers in the wheat belt of WA, it was common for them to remark on how much richer pastures and crops were in their youth.
Industrialised agriculture thrashes the land, and diminishes its soil life to the point where it can no longer function to convert available organic matter into soil fertility. Productivity begins to wane, and attempts to bolster it with increasing chemical inputs (common advice from farm consultants) has a similar effect to flogging a dead horse.
Because it relies on living soil to build fertility, the benefits of organic farming for soil life is fundamental to its methods.benefits organic farming soil
Organic farming benefits food production without destroying our environmental resources, ensuring sustainability for not only the current but also future generations.
Cultivation
While their conventional counterparts may sow by direct drilling of seed into herbicide treated soils, organic farmers are usually at least partly dependent on cultivation to remove weeds prior to sowing. In contrast to cultivation, direct drilling does not mechanically disrupt soil structure and removes the risk of exposed soil being lost to wind or water erosion.
This is a valid argument where farmers are working marginal quality soils. However, the structure of agrochemical-deadened soils is weakened by the corresponding loss of soil life and thus unable to maintain its integrity under occasional cultivation. So it’s a circular argument!
Structurally sound (life-rich) soils may be cultivated regularly without significant damage, particularly if protected appropriately by windbreaks and Key line soil conservation measures.
Even the need to cultivate may be questioned… After noticing rice thriving wild amongst weeds on roadsides, Japanese alternative agriculturalist Mason Fukuoka succeeded in establishing crops by broadcasting seed coated in clay onto until led land.
GM Crops
Organic growers do not use genetically modified or engineered food crops, some of which are engineered to tolerate herbicides (e.g. “Roundup Ready Canola”) or resist pests (e.g. Boll worm resistant cotton). Conventional growers, on the other hand, are free to “take advantage” of GM crops.
According to a report from the Directorate-General for Agriculture of the European Commission, productivity gains attributed to GM crops are usually negligible when growing conditions, farmer experience and soil types are factored in, and are often in fact negative. The main advantage farmers using such crops gain is convenience only.
There are worrying indications that GM crops may be associated with harm to both human health and the environment. The main concern is that once they are released it is nigh impossible to “un-release” them.
advantages and disadvantages organic farming
Time
Indeed, organic farming requires greater interaction between a farmer and his crop for observation, timely intervention and weed control for instance. It is inherently more labor intensive than chemical/mechanical agriculture so that, naturally a single farmer can produce more crop using industrial methods than he or she could by solely organic methods.
Skill advantages and disadvantages organic farming
It requires considerably more skill to farm organically. However, because professional farming of any sort naturally imparts a close and observant relationship to living things, the best organic farmers are converted agrochemical farmers.
Organic farmers do not have some convenient chemical fix on the shelf for every problem they encounter. They have to engage careful observation and greater understanding in order to know how to tweak their farming system to correct the cause of the problem rather than simply putting a plaster over its effect.
This is a bigger issue during the conversion period from conventional to wholly organic when both the learning curve and transition related problems are peaking (it takes time to build a healthy farm ecosystem that copes well without synthetic crutches). Organic farmers I have interviewed report that their most valuable remedies and advice come from other organic farmers.
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ORGANIC FARMING
Climate Friendly
- The synthetic inputs upon which conventional agriculture is so dependent are energy expensive to mine and manufacture. Today the embodied energy of industrial agriculture uses up 9 calories for every 1 calorie of food that it produces!
- Organic agriculture with its low input needs of naturally derived substances produces less greenhouse gas emissions and is considerably more climate friendly.
Ecologically Friendly
It doesn’t use soluble fertilizers…
- Though rarely acknowledged, the chief source of the annual algae blooms that plague Perth’s major river (the Swan) is conventional agriculture.
- Farmers pour tons of phosphate and nitrogenous fertilizer on their cropping lands every year. Because it is soluble, much of this fertilizer is either washed off the soil surface and into waterways (especially phosphates) or leaches through the soil profile beyond the reach of plants and finds its way less directly into waterways (especially nitrates).
- Nitrate contamination of groundwater (indicated by >10 mg/L nitrate) in Australia is widespread in every state and territory, occurring over regional and local scales (LWRRDC 1999). In many areas, the concentration is greater than the recently revised Australian Drinking Water Guidelines level of 50 mg/L nitrate (as nitrate), resulting in groundwater that is unfit for drinking. In some of the more contaminated areas, the concentration is in excess of 100 mg/L (LWRRDC 1999).
- With fresh water reserves under increasing pressure from climate change this is a grave situation for humanity.
- The soluble nutrient pollutants that contaminate surface waters fuel the overgrowth of algae. What is not used up by algae in fresh waterways, spews out into the ocean where it supports the growth of algae on sea plants and coral reef systems. This blocks access to sunlight, causing whatever it smothers to die.
- Eighty percent of the seagrass meadows in Perth’s Cockburn Sound – an important nursery habitat for wild fish stocks - have been decimated due to this process which is called “eutrophication”.
It doesn’t use pesticides or herbicides
- Another pollution disaster caused by agrichemical use is the contamination of groundwater reserves with poisonous nasties, particularly (in Australia) Atrazine and Simazine, but also Dieldrin, Chlorpyriphos, Amitrol, Metolachlor, Trifluraline and Diuron Dieldrin, Lindane, and Alachlor.
- While systematic monitoring of pesticide contamination of groundwater in Australia is limited, available tests have detected pesticides in at least 20% of samples, indicating significant contamination (Australia State of the Environment Report 2001).
- Groundwater studies in the US have found similarly significant contamination. In Carolina, for example, over 27% of wells sampled in 1997 were found to be contaminated with pesticides predominantly from routine agricultural usage.
There is no economically viable method to clean up widespread contamination. Pesticide contamination poses a serious, unreasonable public health threat to current and future ground water users.advantages an- Synthetic agrichemicals (and most plastics widely used in our society) are derived from oil, and thus a source of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (especially xenoestrogens) in the environment. Distorted sex organ development and function in alligators has been related to a major pesticide spill into a lake in Florida, U.S.A.advantages and disadvantages organic farming
- There is also evidence to link xenoestrogens to a range of human medical concerns, particularly reproductive problems such as reduced sperm count in men and breast cancer in women.
- Even the “safest” herbicides such as Roundup (glycophosphate) – the second most widely used in the USA - are now known to pose a danger to wetland eclogues, and can totally decimate frog populations at routine contamination levels.
ORGANIC FARMING AND PEAK OIL
- Agrochemical farming is extremely energy reliant, particularly in the extraction, manufacture and processing of the synthetic chemicals upon which it is so dependent.
- In a world of diminishing oil supplies the days of chemical agriculture are numbered!advantages and disadvantages o
- One has only to study the experience of Cuba to know this is so. In the early 1990s Cuba had the most industrialised agriculture in Latin America, fueled by cheap, readily available Soviet oil. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, this supply was cut, virtually overnight.
- At first Cuba was faced with dire food shortages, and despite rationing the average Cuban lost 10 kilogrammes in weight! Hungry people responded by becoming farmers – lawyers, teachers, truck drivers… everyone leaned to garden!
- Under the community-focused direction of its socialist leadership, Cuba rapidly made a successful transition to organic agriculture and more labour intensive methods, including reintroducing the use of bullocks in the cultivation of crops.
- This is the near future that awaits us all. Do you believe our corporation-serving governments will so decisively lead us through it? Will you be ready for it? For more information please visit this Food For Wealth :D advantages and disadvantages organic farming advantages and disadvantages organic farming
What is it You Can Learn About Alternative Agriculture?
- There are a large variety of agricultural options other than an increasing unhealthy dependence on pesticides and fertilizers for growing our food. These methods will not only increase crop yields, but cut growing and storage costs, produce higher quality produce (that receives a higher price), and healthier products to boot.
- It's unfortunate that because of the influence of big-agra, today our farmers don't even know how to farm anymore. If an insect pest attacks a farm, farmers are stumped as to what to do and then take it to their local ag supplier to look up in a book what chemical to apply. Farmers have lost all contact with the land and the natural rhythms of farming that produces a healthier crop and therefore, healthier humans who consume that food.
- What other options are there?
- There is eco-agriculture. There is organic farming and biodynamic farming. There is calendar farming and lunar planting and sowing. There is biological farming and sustainable agriculture. There is radionics farming. There are a variety of techniques that teach farmers how to grow larger yields, at less cost, with healthier crops than what is now done. The variety of options includes:
- Organic Farming
- Biological Famring
- Biodynamic Farming
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Calendar Farming
- Self-sustaining Farming
- Regenerative agriculture
- Permaculture
What has to be done?
(1) You have to test your soil's fertility, and balance your soil with the addition of the right minerals. You have to encourage the growth of the right microorganisms in the soil, for the soil is a living organism itself.
(2) You must plant the right type of seeds at the right time, and use the right type of rotation of crops to renew the soil.
(3) You must select the right type of fertilizers for your soil.
(4) You must use herbicides and pesticides in minimal amounts and stop depending on toxic materials. You must learn to control weeds and insects through soil fertility.
(5) You can produce healthier livestock via more natural farming methods.
(6) You can market more products, and at higher prices, if you adopt the well proven principles of direct marketing to farm management.
(1) You have to test your soil's fertility, and balance your soil with the addition of the right minerals. You have to encourage the growth of the right microorganisms in the soil, for the soil is a living organism itself.
(2) You must plant the right type of seeds at the right time, and use the right type of rotation of crops to renew the soil.
(3) You must select the right type of fertilizers for your soil.
(4) You must use herbicides and pesticides in minimal amounts and stop depending on toxic materials. You must learn to control weeds and insects through soil fertility.
(5) You can produce healthier livestock via more natural farming methods.
(6) You can market more products, and at higher prices, if you adopt the well proven principles of direct marketing to farm management.
- This is the field of "alternative agriculture." It involves soil fertility and natural pesticides. It involves weather engineering and clean sources of water. It involves lunar planting and harvesting. It involves manures and soil micronutrients. It involves farming as a sustainable business. It involves a whole variety of healthy, sustainable, and PROFITABLE activities that make farming a more efficient, profitable, enjoyable and satsifying occupation.
Alternative Agriculture ... Welcome to the concept.
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