By Jeff on 2 November 2011
A friend in Chiang Mai has been a big help in explaining how to raise rabbits for meat on a small farm. This letter details the trials and tribulations and learning. read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค, Latest | Tagged animal feed, compost, forage, gardening, rabbits, vegetables, water hyacinth, weeds
By Les on 27 June 2010
Take care of difficult problems, while they are still easy; Do easy things before they become too hard. read more
Posted in Blog / บล็อค | Tagged Biological pest control, health, herbicides, Integrated Pest Mangement, IPM, organic, pesticides, pests, sprays, vegetables, weeds
By Jeff on 20 February 2010
The mornings in Chiang Mai lately have been wonderfully cool, but the searing heat of noon suggests that we’re heading toward the… read more
Posted in Latest | Tagged Ai Seud, annuals, basket, compost, gardening, sheet mulch, vegetables, weeds
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 Farmshops and Resources, Photos / รูปภาพ | Tagged agriculture, compost, dontan, Kachin, new theory agriculture, paddy, permaculture, rice, sheet mulch, SRI, straw, thai, vegetables, water hyacinth, weeds
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
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