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 Blog / บล็อค, Latest | Tagged basket, herbicides, paddy, peanuts, rice, rice harvest, value added
By Les on 14 November 2009
‘You don’t have a snail problem, you’ve got a duck deficiency’. Bill Mollison.
One of the things I like about permaculture is its very positive approach. Problems can become an asset if we can think outside the square and successfully apply creative thinking.
Sitting by the canal the other day, Jeff and I were visited by a neighbour. Jeff had pulled out a large pond snail (Pomacea
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged ducks, Mollison, permaculture, pests, rice
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 4 August 2009
This year we used three different methods to plant the Fair Earth Farm organic rice. Here are a few photos from a day with friends, direct planting our seedlings… read more
Posted in Photos / รูปภาพ | Tagged august, friends, organic, planting, rice, seed bed, seedling
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