ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): farming

Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts

Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Reading

Helen Whybrow
THE SALT STONES - SEASONS OF A SHEPHERD'S LIFE

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Currently Watching

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
John Chester, USA, 2018

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Currently Reading

Andrea Heistinger
THE MANUAL OF SEED SAVING
Harvesting, Storing, and Sowing Techniques for Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Currently Reading

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TEAMING WITH BACTERIA

The Organic Gardener's Guide to Endophytic Bacteria and the Rhizophagy Cycle

Jeff Lowenfels

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Currently Reading

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TEAMING WITH FUNGI

The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae

Jeff Lowenfels

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Currently Reading

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TEAMING WITH NUTRIENTS

The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

Jeff Lowenfels

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Currently Reading

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TEAMING WITH MICROBES

The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web

Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Currently Reading

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ATTRACTING BENEFICIAL BUGS TO YOUR GARDEN

A Natural Approach to Pest Control

Revised and Updated Second Edition

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Jessica Walliser

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Currently Reading

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MIRACULOUS ABUNDANCE

One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World

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Perrine Hervé-Gruyer

Charles Hervé-Gruyer

Saturday, April 22, 2023

ANGLO SAXON LAW

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Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil.

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HOMER

The Odyssey

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I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

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WC LOWDERMILK (1953)

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If the soil is destroyed, then our liberty of action and choice are gone.

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JONATHAN SWIFT

Gulliver's Travels

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Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind - and do more essential service to his country - than the whole race of politicians put together.

Sunday, April 9, 2023

Currently Reading

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THE ORGANIC MEDICINAL HERB FARMER

The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale

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Jeff Carpenter

Melanie Carpenter

Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar

Sunday, April 2, 2023

Currently Reading

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THE CHINESE MEDICINAL HERB FARM

A Cultivator's Guide to Small-Scale Organic Herb Production

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Peg Schafer

Foreword by Steven Foster

Friday, March 24, 2023

Currently Reading

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 2 - DESIGN & PRACTICE

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

Monday, March 20, 2023

Currently Reading

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EDIBLE PERENNIAL GARDENING

Growing Successful Polycultures in Small Spaces

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Anni Kelsey

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Currently Reading

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 2 - DESIGN & PRACTICE

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Currently Reading

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 1 - VISION & THEORY

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Currently Reading

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THE LIVING SOIL HANDBOOK

The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening

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Jesse Frost

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Currently Reading

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SUSTAINABLE [R]EVOLUTION

Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide

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Juliana Birnbaum and Louis Fox

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

THE BACKYARD HOMESTEAD SEASON PLANNER
What to Do and When to Do It in the Garden, Orchard, Barn, Pasture, and Equipment Shed

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Ann Larken Hansen

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Refresher Course Part Two.

Sunday, January 9, 2022

THE BACKYARD HOMESTEAD
Produce All the Food You Need On Just a Quarter Acre!

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Carleen Madigan

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Refresher course.

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.