calliandra
Well-Known Member
Moving away from the chemical approach to plant cultivation, organics has come a long way.
We've bought in to "organic" products that barely deserve the name as they follow the same recipe-based, plug-and-play philosophy as the Liebig-based, chemical-corp friendly interlude that did so much harm to us on so many levels.
We've gotten frustrated with all that, and moved on to sourcing - or even better, producing - our own, clean, amendments, making our own soils, becoming more and more self-sufficient, localized, down-to-the-earth. Connecting to our plants, observing the organisms in and on the soil, the plants, the air, and how they work together to create balanced, healthy ecosystems. And searching for solutions in all corners of the agricultural world - from soil microbiology to korean natural farming techniques, integrated pest management, covercropping, the brewing of concoctions promising yet more allround healthiness and vigour...
We struggle with putting words to what we're doing, "real organics", "sustainable organics", but all fall short in pinpointing what the common denominator of all these efforts is.
Until the other day, I chanced upon a talk held this past March during the Living Soils Symposium in Oregon that brought home to me that the common driving force behind all these diverse tendencies is the thought of working WITH rather than against nature, and above and beyond that, restoring and fortifying the nature we have at our hands to work with - be it a 3g pot of soil or a 100 acre farm.
Regenerating healthy environments for healthy crops that will make and keep us all healthy.
It has to do with respect and awe at the infinite resourcefulness of the natural world.
It has to do with humbleness. To recognize that for all our giant brains, the only way we can even appreciate the full splendour of diversity and complexity with which nature fulfills its tasks is by allowing our hearts to breathe it in and feeel it as a wave, get on that wave, and ride along. Taking countless tumbles into seeming disgrace, which however is the richest imaginable pool of learning. Slow, loving, and joyful healing, us growing with the wisdom we thus acquire.
It is what we need to do on a global scale to move us out of this very dangerous place we have gotten into.
Every little contribution helps.
If all you're doing is chucking your food scraps into a wormbin, it's a contribution.
If all you're doing is reamending that spent 3g pot with healthily grown topdressings.
If all you're doing is making peace after getting into fights with your beloved ones.
That too is a step pushing our collective consciousness into the direction so direly needed.
Thinking on it, it is no surprise that the cannabis scene is on the cutting edge of this development.
It's in the nature of the plant itself
So, on the threshold to utter destruction, let us focus on regenerating, recreating the world the way we would like to see it, the way our hearts yearn to live this human experience.
Here's the talk from the Living Soil Symposium (https://livingsoilssymposium.com/),
A note to the hasty: this talk starts out at the lowest common denominator: breathing.
so it may seem to progress slowly.
However, they're doing something really important there (and which is one of the focus points of David Bohm's dialogue): delineating their developmental paths to their current mindset and practice to give us understanding of where they're coming from. The importance of listening to the land, using intuition to establish and evolve solutions as we tread unchartered territories, fundamentally shifting the way we think about the world and life in general, it's all in there.
At 25:50, Elizabeth goes into their holistic approach with animals - including the very precious tip of starting slow and building up as we go, which, hand on heart, is one of the more precious, generally applicable pointers in this presentation
And from 48:00, Nick goes into what the essence of regenerative farming is. Gives us some detail as to how they prepared the soil (fungal component via hugelcultural restructuring of the landscape) as well as diversity management (companion plants, intercropping, chop and drop complementing the cannabis plants' nutritional needs...) - and some lovely photographs of their fields!
Here's their website too
https://greensourcegardens.com/
Enjoy!!!
We've bought in to "organic" products that barely deserve the name as they follow the same recipe-based, plug-and-play philosophy as the Liebig-based, chemical-corp friendly interlude that did so much harm to us on so many levels.
We've gotten frustrated with all that, and moved on to sourcing - or even better, producing - our own, clean, amendments, making our own soils, becoming more and more self-sufficient, localized, down-to-the-earth. Connecting to our plants, observing the organisms in and on the soil, the plants, the air, and how they work together to create balanced, healthy ecosystems. And searching for solutions in all corners of the agricultural world - from soil microbiology to korean natural farming techniques, integrated pest management, covercropping, the brewing of concoctions promising yet more allround healthiness and vigour...
We struggle with putting words to what we're doing, "real organics", "sustainable organics", but all fall short in pinpointing what the common denominator of all these efforts is.
Until the other day, I chanced upon a talk held this past March during the Living Soils Symposium in Oregon that brought home to me that the common driving force behind all these diverse tendencies is the thought of working WITH rather than against nature, and above and beyond that, restoring and fortifying the nature we have at our hands to work with - be it a 3g pot of soil or a 100 acre farm.
Regenerating healthy environments for healthy crops that will make and keep us all healthy.
It has to do with respect and awe at the infinite resourcefulness of the natural world.
It has to do with humbleness. To recognize that for all our giant brains, the only way we can even appreciate the full splendour of diversity and complexity with which nature fulfills its tasks is by allowing our hearts to breathe it in and feeel it as a wave, get on that wave, and ride along. Taking countless tumbles into seeming disgrace, which however is the richest imaginable pool of learning. Slow, loving, and joyful healing, us growing with the wisdom we thus acquire.
It is what we need to do on a global scale to move us out of this very dangerous place we have gotten into.
Every little contribution helps.
If all you're doing is chucking your food scraps into a wormbin, it's a contribution.
If all you're doing is reamending that spent 3g pot with healthily grown topdressings.
If all you're doing is making peace after getting into fights with your beloved ones.
That too is a step pushing our collective consciousness into the direction so direly needed.
Thinking on it, it is no surprise that the cannabis scene is on the cutting edge of this development.
It's in the nature of the plant itself
So, on the threshold to utter destruction, let us focus on regenerating, recreating the world the way we would like to see it, the way our hearts yearn to live this human experience.
Here's the talk from the Living Soil Symposium (https://livingsoilssymposium.com/),
A note to the hasty: this talk starts out at the lowest common denominator: breathing.
so it may seem to progress slowly.
However, they're doing something really important there (and which is one of the focus points of David Bohm's dialogue): delineating their developmental paths to their current mindset and practice to give us understanding of where they're coming from. The importance of listening to the land, using intuition to establish and evolve solutions as we tread unchartered territories, fundamentally shifting the way we think about the world and life in general, it's all in there.
At 25:50, Elizabeth goes into their holistic approach with animals - including the very precious tip of starting slow and building up as we go, which, hand on heart, is one of the more precious, generally applicable pointers in this presentation
And from 48:00, Nick goes into what the essence of regenerative farming is. Gives us some detail as to how they prepared the soil (fungal component via hugelcultural restructuring of the landscape) as well as diversity management (companion plants, intercropping, chop and drop complementing the cannabis plants' nutritional needs...) - and some lovely photographs of their fields!
Here's their website too
https://greensourcegardens.com/
Enjoy!!!
