My comments are not based on intuition. They are based on my experience as a professional farmer. My credentials in this regard are not based on academic publications, but rather on the quality of my produce, the soundness of my methods and the satisfaction of my customers. My comments on monoculture are based on comparative experiences on farms with monoculture vs. those which maintain a diversity of produce and a living eco-system.
If you would like to learn what I know, I offer the following recommendations:
1. Put down the books 2. Get outside into the field 3. Get to work
You will learn many things that are not in books or in articles on the Internet and sooner or later the academics will catch up to you.
You will learn many things that are not in books or in articles on the Internet and sooner or later the academics will catch up to you.
Please do not, in my space, insult books or those who read them. (Or academia; do you discount me as a poet because I learned my three dead languages at a university?) You are not being dismissed; you are being asked for information.
My comments are not based on intuition. They are based on my experience as a professional farmer. My credentials in this regard are not based on academic publications, but rather on the quality of my produce, the soundness of my methods and the satisfaction of my customers. My comments on monoculture are based on comparative experiences on farms with monoculture vs. those which maintain a diversity of produce and a living eco-system.
I respect the practical knowledge that your profession allows you, but that does not delegitimize the contributions of other professions and other types of experts. Your background also does not automatically imply that your every pronouncement on the subject is correct.
I'm aware of the problems with monoculture farming, and I agree that it's not an intelligent agricultural system. You don't have to convince me of that. But you've yet to convincingly connect monoculture to the blight outbreak, which has affected everything from huge industrial farms down to diverse backyard gardens across the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.
This discussion is now closed. Thank you.
Unwillingness to discuss a matter does not prove the unwilling party correct. Anyone can tell me I'm wrong; I'm asking you, as someone with far more experience that I have, to show me that I'm wrong.
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If you would like to learn what I know, I offer the following recommendations:
1. Put down the books
2. Get outside into the field
3. Get to work
You will learn many things that are not in books or in articles on the Internet and sooner or later the academics will catch up to you.
This discussion is now closed. Thank you.
no subject
Please do not, in my space, insult books or those who read them. (Or academia; do you discount me as a poet because I learned my three dead languages at a university?) You are not being dismissed; you are being asked for information.
no subject
I respect the practical knowledge that your profession allows you, but that does not delegitimize the contributions of other professions and other types of experts. Your background also does not automatically imply that your every pronouncement on the subject is correct.
I'm aware of the problems with monoculture farming, and I agree that it's not an intelligent agricultural system. You don't have to convince me of that. But you've yet to convincingly connect monoculture to the blight outbreak, which has affected everything from huge industrial farms down to diverse backyard gardens across the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.
This discussion is now closed. Thank you.
Unwillingness to discuss a matter does not prove the unwilling party correct. Anyone can tell me I'm wrong; I'm asking you, as someone with far more experience that I have, to show me that I'm wrong.