Go read Me
June 24th, 2008Remember that I recently recommended reading George Monbiot? Well, he’s just agreed to my translating his recent article Small is Bountiful, in defense of smallholdings, on my garden blog. Not that you need a French translation anyway, but I thought I’d let you know.
But, but… You’re giving away your identity on that other site. You’re not an anonymous celebrity anymore. We can find you.
Yep, that’s correct. No man is an island, and this other site is half-professional, so I cannot keep hiding behind my cat. You might even see my picture there in the near future. At least, I am still anonymous to people who can’t Google in French or who can’t read my mandarine blog thoroughly.
It has been too long since I visited your blog. I have thoroughly enjoyed catching up with some of your ideas. I read your discussion of the air industry with a great deal of interest, and the link to Small is Bountiful was worth the time it took to read. Perhaps another reason small farmers get such high productivity is that they have a small enough area to patrol that they can see problems when they first start and deal with them before they become big problems. I just dealt with some squash vine borers before they destroyed my crop, and I was able to do it because our garden is compact.
Indeed. I have read about farming practices in Burundi, where apparently they have developed a system of up to seven or eight companion crops on the same plot of land. When the farmer goes to visit the plot, he can patrol for pests, weed, harvest one crop, and sow another at the same time. Obviously, this is only possible with a very small plot of land.