Everything and Anything Green

Wanna know my frame of mind?  What is your local food farmer thinking if he's not worried about beating the rush hour traffic?  Pretty simple I guess, Bugs, Bulbs, Bullshit, Backaches, and um Biodynamics?  Yea, Rudolf Stiener; self sufficiency, dedication, completion, and integrity....Sounds like most small farmers I know.  I love that he starts his lecture series telling the world there is no place for economists telling farmers how to grow.  Though I cant find anything more than hanging out with the farmers in trouble, in Rudolfs' experiance in farming either.  But im down with the idea of self sufficiency and intuition, and the realist in me understands that in order to export produce, we must import nitrogen (mostly).  That doesn't mean chemical nitrogen, but that element in particular is the shit, so to speak.  So my neighbor has two steers and I have a pond, as well as a small but growing flock of mixed laying hens.  With the help of them, I am able to import less.  Its not expensive to shovel out your neighbors stalls, but it does cost in sweat.  

Bugs!  We do well with just preventing any ill health with compost teas, but if the pests get too crazy, i like neem oil or diatoms.

Bulbs, well I just finished the last planting of glads for cut flowers. I like to successively plant them to extend the harvest.  They are so big as far as most blooms are, so you only need a couple per arrangement.  The garlic is in super early for me.  I only plant the hugest from last year.  Garlic is cool.   Ive heard garlic is paired with humans through better or worse.  Seems it would have poor chances to go on if we dont make it to divide and re sow the next season.  Corn is another, it just wouldnt get big enough, all crouded with its syblings on a rotten core.  It needs us to break it up and divide the seed.  It seems we need it equally.  Read The Omnivors Dilema.

So last of the first, is backackes.  I started makeing a Ganja salve for my moms arthiritis, her hands look twisted, and gotta ache like hell.  Its given her some relief, wait till i tell her its from some auto imune difficiency poison in her favorite artificial non sweetner.  Its nice on my back too.  Ive been told it cured toenail fungus.

Well gotta go take care of the new cuttings, its intense keeping them happy durring the crazy hot and buisy summer.