Finding friends in the agriculture

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:37:53 +0200

Welcome to this archive which tries to let you see a corner where good food and good friends matter. It is not the idea of high production or low cost by paying near to nothing in labor, or destroying all nature to make my products "look" good.

Here agriculture is for us, for home for our own table and for our children, so if there is anything that these little ones are going to eat and drink, others may as well find not only delicious and nutritious, but good hearted too.

The secret is to just forget about vanities and "looking good" stream of thought (if there is any thought in there), to value soil, water, seeds, natural nutrients which do fertilize without damaging the planet. If the apple from this tree is enjoyed by some bug, it means it's good, and by the time you get to harvest, the mini or maxi bites will simply mean "some one else found that your fruit is very good".

The same strategy applies to friends. Friends to party there are heaps. Friends to work, even less, and friends to share a common problem...very hard. Well, a common problem we all have is not a brief thing to be described but I will try:

Ok, finding good food with natural fiber, without added chemicals that kill nutrients, etc.
Knowing that a square meter of earth surface gets 1000 watts in radiation from the Sun, and supposing that a maximum of 5% efficiency is possible, that means 50 very good watts that NO ONE IS GOING TO GIVE YOU FOR FREE, except THE SUN. But every body says: "nah, it's not even possible...", "you are crazy...", "...the oilers will kill you...", "...you will get coursed...", and so on....( a very long topic).
Likewise for wind power and the silly comments you hear or read ("very noisy", "very ugly landscape"....any one would prefer oil spills in the ocean than the ugly lanscape...etc)
That there is more fun in the pub or in watching porno sites, or watching TV or football, etc., etc., is also part of the problem, because the "other guys" need you dumb so they can go ahead with their strategy of gathering the money you don't wish or don't have time to take. Every minute that you spend flattening your bottom watching TV is a minute that some one with open eyes and open mind is using to catch that dollar, pound, peso, yuan, yen, etc., that would otherwise escape from their greedy hands if more awake people were there not just to catch money, but to watch what they eat and what sort of entertainment they choose.
The new paradigms the "modern society" has been handling as if they were the true problems is another worse problem because false debates are placed to put people to fight when the point is to avoid fighting instead. The left-right debate, the gay-straight debate, killing or whales and whatever other action that means causing extintion of species, not caring about those beings and so on. That's just stirring the ignorance, there are basic principles above those discussions, because broadly documented are the cases of rightist or leftist governments that anyway don't provide wellness for their people, as it is known of killings, divorces and infidelity ammong gay as there are in straight couples (or triads, quartets, quintets....). There are basic rules written along human history, that are simple and wise to protect the well living. Those actions cosidered "sins" are things to think about twice or three times or more, because a "sin" is not a religious concept. It's a very human characteristic. Say for example you eat and eat and eat without control, and that will hurt yourself in the end. More than offending anyone else you are hurting yourself. Screw and screw and screw and despite of any physical illness, your mind gets ill because it can not process more thoughts than screwing around. And similarly with the other famous 5 sins. So back to the basic "Kiss" (keep it simple -you- stupid) philosophy

These few paragraphs are dedicated to a good friend of mine who has had a very hard life but who wants to go ahead in life happy, surrounded by good hearts, and one day become a lawyer and own a café.

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