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[TroySantos]

HIYA!

Anyone know of this? Where can I find them? I've looked on the internet but haven't come up with anything.

Thanks,
Troy.

[Hyeon Een]

Don't know anything about it.

But I have a student who's brother-in-law is an organic farmer. He told me that the guy is really lazy though, so the guy's mother has to spend hours and hours pulling weeds in the fields. I think she uses pesticides and herbicides when he isn't looking to save her back-breaking work =)

[TroySantos]

HIYA!

That's hilarious. Reminds me of something I read about when I lived at a temple in Thailand. A temple in the Santi Asoke group. All Santi Asoke temples and communities do some amount of agriculture. I read that one of the temples that grows rice has larger harvests than others because they have neighbors who don't mind using pesticides and don't mind killing mice. There being fewer mice in the area means fewer mice eat the rice plants. So the Asoke farmers -who would never use even organic pesticides or intentionally kill the mice - at this particular temple benefit from other peoples' killing.

Also, I remember reading or hearing somewhere that the farmer-children / successors of Masanobu Fukuoka, the Japanese farmer who wrote probably my all-time favorite book One Straw Revolution don't follow his ways and are using agricultural chemicals. Constant change in this world.

Troy.