Sustainable Agriculture discussion:  IS water or soil health our biggest concern?Socio-Agro-ecologist says:I love and am fascinated with the soil, but soil health starts with a certain degree of water. The most vibrant soil goes dormant in the monsoon season without drainage and in the summer drought without irrigation. I'd say we need to build the… Continue reading Water, decertification, soil health and agroforestry

"The engines that generate wealth for the investor class are corporations working in tandem with government."  These engines control the information feeding the mind of 85% of the world.  Through democracy the entire population is controlled, and society's system of laws are dictated as appropriate to the consolidation of power and wealth by the few.… Continue reading Democracy’s achilles heal

My comment to the Sustainable Agriculture discussion group on the intervention by world ag-industry in India: It is not really disputable according to the facts available to us in 2013. The green revolution was a propaganda "spin", and it was net negative for populations, communities, and all creatures of the planet. Cheap fertilizer was temporary and… Continue reading More from the Farmer… the green revolution farce

Trust me this gets interesting very quickly and not just for farmers... The question posed in a professional agriculture discussion group: Metan Kaan:  "What is the future of "Soil Tillage"? No Till is just a fashion or future of Soil Tillage? It is not able to kill Ploughing (Conventional Tillage) yet. Also there is a way between… Continue reading The future of agricultural tillage gone philisophical

I am loading big wooden crates that hold 1500 to 2000 lbs of potatoes onto a flatbed truck that runs on propane. I traded my 1989 dodge farm pick-up truck for the hulking propane truck.  The loading is with a 1950’s era orchard forklift on a 1967 John Deere tractor…struggling a bit and thinking a lot.… Continue reading Putting a person in a cage–the nature of man and “beast”

Economically, capitalism is benign and superior to market manipulation as a new term for the default system of "free market". Politically, however, it becomes a powerful tool for control of populations. Placing and promoting capital acquisition and materialism to the top of the decision making and motivation pyramid in culture or society...add its use as a… Continue reading 5. Capitalism: problematic or benign?

See "Capitalism: Problematic or Benign?" It's not the free market that feeds the problem even if we had a free market; rather, the fuel feeding the problem is a corrupt governmental regulatory structure, or from another angle a 'regulatory charade.' Word on the street is the 'government is there to do the bidding of corporate interests… Continue reading 4. The Free Market: dangerous or benign?

It's not the businesses that are corrupt it is the environment in which those businesses exist, the ethic behind the capital that funds them, and the governments that "regulate", or from different angle, "facilitate" them.  Due to systematic "corruption" we have been watching the culmination of a "soft coup" or takeover of power by "investment… Continue reading 3. Corporate Business: corrupt or benign?

Summary: This is like saying are strawberries cancerous because they are tainted with chemicals that cause cancer.  It is not the strawberry that is cancerous, but public policy that perpetuates the use of poison in food production. In democracy, which is the rule by the majority, the ones who control information in the minds of… Continue reading 2. Democracy… powerful, benign or cancerous