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 Reform attempt. Alex is drugged and forced to watch violent movies. I have a friend who is too emotionally wrapped up in the Canucks to watch the games. He says for health reasons he can only take it by listening to the game from another room. His heart rate goes through the roof every time the puck goes near Luongo. The mean side of me threatened him with the Clockwork Orange torture for game 6. He said he’d be happy to watch Henrik hoist the cup. Me too. OK, so I have a messed up back right now so I’m not super eloquent nor animated about leafy green crops right now, but here’s a one minute video of our winter hoop house.
Gotta love Halloween … NOT! A video with comments from a wide range of people involved in organics, sharing their organic vision and why organic food matters. Environmental ethics and principals of stewardship are embedded in the Canadian Organic standards. The video is worth watching. t>
Helen Atthowe is another organic farming hero. She grows very nice peppers and uses “living mulch” to build healthy soil and reduce labour. It’s a system I will be incorporating in a new field in the next season.  Potato Blight I like Irish permaculture researcher John D’Hondt’s perspective on a solution to potato blight. I think it applies to many pests and pathogens. Let the soil body heal itself. “There are at least tens of thousands of different species of bacterium A short tour of Earthwise farm’s heirloom tomatoes – grown by some extraordinary folks. |
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Halloween – Yikes, never liked it even as a kid, but I volunteer as “Chief Spook” for kids who take a tour around the haunted garden at Earthwise where I work. There are some great scare crows and jack-o-lanterns and me – a cloth over my head – the ghost of farmer James who lived here a century ago but now haunts the garden. My job is to scare kids.
I play the part but a couple of bratty kids terrorized me, tear my ghost cloth and whack me with a piece of rope to prove I am not a ghost while yelling – “You’re not scary!”
All summer those dastardliy rabbits have been nibbling chunks out of my beets. These days, the Northern Harriers are swooping around the fields – I hope they dine on a few of those rabbits. Not likely though, they are more apt to snag the voles who hide in the edges of the vegetable fields. A modern day Elmer Fudd took action on 
Quote from Elmer:
Happy for Alex