By siraseth on 28 December 2009
ลุงยอด ชายชราชาว “ดาราอั้ง” ที่ย้ายถิ่นฐานจากประเทศพม่าเข้ามาอยู่ประเทศไทยที่หมู่บ้านปางแดง อำเภอเชียงดาวตั้งแต่ปี พ.ศ. 2526 ปัจจุบันแม้ลุงยอดจะมีอายุ 63 ปีแล้ว แต่ก็ยังมีวิถีการดำรงชีพที่ผูกโยงกับการผลิตในภาคการเกษตรเป็นหลัก… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged agroforestry, Chiang Dao, Palaung, ภาษาไทย
By Jeff on 26 December 2009
The Fair Earth team is on holiday until early January. We wish our members, friends and visitors a safe and healthy 2010!… read more
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By Jeff on 22 December 2009
ARHUS, Denmark—The climate talks in Copenhagen were a farce – and an expensive farce at 200+ million bucks – but they were important in exposing the world political order for what it is. And it’s not pretty… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged climate change
By Les on 16 December 2009
The sweet melody of Thai folk songs drifted across the fields as I started my day’s work at Fair Earth Farm. In a nearby paddy a field worker had begun her hard day’s toil, digging and hoeing the ground in preparation for the next crop of flowers. By comparison my day was to be easy, a bit of light planting and some easy mulching, yet I knew… read more
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By Jeff on 12 December 2009
COPENHAGEN—It’s easy to get lost here at the UN climate talks in Denmark. The flood of people, the forests of documents and fliers, the swarm of numbers; they even have their own language – and it’s not Danish. Climatese, we can call it; a new language of power in our world.
But now and then there are moments of frank speech. This, from a leading Chinese delegate, Ambassador Yu… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged carbon, climate change
By Les on 7 December 2009
CSA baskets are being distributed. It would be good to improve the diversity of produce in them, so we need to get fast yielding annual vegetables in the ground straight away. One of the current issues facing small seedlings and vegetables on the Fair Earth Farm is the damage caused by ducks and chickens. For this reason the obvious place for an immediate start was the fenced area already… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged annuals, Mulch, straw, vegetables, water hyacinth
By Les on 7 December 2009
In search of food and stories
We followed the easy route north from town towards Chiang Dao and the Panya Permaculture project. It was mid November and the wet season was over. Already the landscape was starting to brown. The life giving rains had stopped as if a switch had been thrown. For those unfamiliar with the monsoon tropics it can be a shock; abundant rain for… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged agroforestry, Chiang Dao, Palaung, permaculture, upland
By Jeff on 4 December 2009
The Fair Earth rice harvest certainly wasn’t finished in a day (partially because we had a few different varieties of rice), but with the help of many friends the rice season finished on a sunny, high note. Here are a few photos of the harvest gang in action… read more
Posted in Photos / รูปภาพ | Tagged agriculture, friends, rice field, rice harvest, thresh
By Alongkorn on 3 December 2009
“ลุงอุ่น” เกษตรกรชาวดอนตัน อายุ 65 ปี ลุงอุ่นเป็นเกษตรกรคนหนึ่ง (ในไม่กี่คน) ที่พยายามหลีกเลี่ยงวงจรของการใช้สารเคมีในการผลิต รวมถึงพยายามหลีกเลี่ยงจากการปลูกดอกที่ปัจจุบันกำลังเป็นกระแสเข้ามาใน หมู่บ้านดอนตัน แม้สุดท้ายแล้วจะไม่สามารถหลีกเลี่ยงได้ก็ตาม… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged agriculture, history, ภาษาไทย
By Jeff on 3 December 2009
Soymilk! That should be a welcome new addition to the baskets. And there are some fresh veggies from Loong Chan, a potential new grower-member of the CSA. read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค, Latest | Tagged Ai Seud, basket, ducks, pesticides, pests, rice field
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