By Les on 3 March 2010
Permaculture acknowledges a basic life ethic, which recognises the intrinsic worth of every living thing. It strives to take a benevolent approach, restoring habitat and allowing all things their place. The creation of refuge is one way to achieve this aim and increase yield at the same time.
การเกษตรแบบ permaculture ให้ความสำคัญกับหลักการดำเนินชีวิตแบบเรียบง่ายที่ยอมรับในคุณค่าของทุกชีวิต จากการที่มันเป็นระบบที่เป็นมิตรที่ดีต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมรอบด้าน ในด้านหนึ่งจึงเท่ากับเป็นการฟื้นฟูที่อยู่อาศัยของชีวิตต่าง ๆ ไปด้วย ซึ่งการสร้างที่อยู่ให้ชีวิตเหล่านี้นอกจากจะเป็นทางหนึ่งในการบรรลุจุดประสงค์ดังกล่าวแล้วยังเป็นการช่วยเพิ่มผลผลิตได้ในเวลาเดียวกันด้วย read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged ducks, ethics, habitat, Mollison, paddy, permaculture, refuge, rice, water hyacinth
By Jeff on 30 January 2010
What do you get when you cross a dozen Kachin environmentalists, a group of northern Thai neighbors and a handful of whacky green people on the farm – a great day of knowledge sharing and food planting! read more
Posted in Photos / รูปภาพ, Workshops | Tagged agriculture, compost, dontan, Kachin, new theory agriculture, paddy, permaculture, rice, sheet mulch, SRI, straw, thai, vegetables, water hyacinth, weeds
By Jeff on 27 January 2010
There’s a new friend in your basket this week: the edible chrysanthemum. Enjoy it, but don’t get too friendly with it, for it won’t be around for long. read more
Posted in Baskets / ผลผลิต | Tagged basket, ducks, health, paddy, rice harvest, vegetables
By Jeff on 26 November 2009
The CSA basket for this last, refreshingly chilly week in November represents some things old and some things new… read more
Posted in Baskets / ผลผลิต, Blog / บล็อค | Tagged basket, herbicides, paddy, peanuts, rice, rice harvest, value added
By Jeff on 29 August 2009
From a distance, weeding a rice paddy is a formidable task. The rice looks pretty healthy – green, anyway, and producing new shoots – but the field’s a bit shaggy. There’s a lot more than rice coming up in there. Somebody needs to get in there and deal with it. My farmhand, Ai Seud, is the usual somebody, that being his job. But I need to get into it too… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged Ai Seud, ducks, paddy, rice, weeds
By Jeff on 14 August 2009
August 14
5.30 a.m.
Annie has started school again. Second grade. To beat traffic, we need to leave home by 6.45. In order to first feed the birds and get in some weeding – not to mention coffee — I need to get up around 5 and be back home not long after 6. It’s still dark at 5, and will only become darker from here on, but… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged ducks, paddy, rice field
By Jeff on 10 August 2009
5.30 p.m.
Manny, the hedgehog, was happily scurrying in the overgrown grass in the ‘lawn.’ I was happy to see that he couldn’t squeeze through the holes in the woven chicken dome used for keeping fighting cocks. I don’t like him spending too much time in his cage, poor fella. Sarah takes him out every morning so he can race around (at hedgehog racing speed) in the yard and… read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged Diary, ducks, paddy, rice field
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