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So I am supposed to sit back and let a bunch of hypocrites who wont do any research to back up what they believe attack me simply because I have I dont believe their dogma? It is not a matter of opinion. It is a matter of fact. Both organic and industrial agriculture can be studied and then...

You may get a reduced soybean yield by interplanting with corn, but dont you get a higher corn yield? http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/precision-ag/farming-edge-strip-intercropping-edges-capture-more-light-reward-higher-yields In other words the consumer price for manure is set by the consumer...

I wasn't name calling I was stating a fact. This person is behaving towards me in the same manner in which he claims I have behaved towards others when I question peoples claims about how hard they have it as organic farmers. Organic farmers have a vested interest in claiming that they have to...

I am going to tell them what I tell them based on my personal experience. If you have to spend more time and labor than I do in order to grow as much as I do in the same amount of space that I have to use, then you are doing something wrong. I am 44 and I have had my own garden since I was 13...

My mothers mother grew up on her familys dairy/poultry farm in North Carolina. Her ancestors have been farming in America (Pennsylvania and then North Carolina) for almost 300 years. Her ancestors came mostly from the Rhineland and the people there are natural born farmers- just read up on the...

Bare root trees are supposed to be dormant so they should be planted in the winter or early spring. Unless you are digging trees up somewhere, I doubt that you will find any bare root trees for sale during the summer. Trees that are already in pots can be planted in the ground and I would...

This is all any farmer should ever have to do. But when you let big corporations get involved thing go differently because you cannot trust Wall Street. Someone I found on another board once asked for advice on how to set up a CSA and one of their biggest concerns was how to go about...

http://www.coonamessettfarm.com/id16.html Their wool is short stapled and fine. It grades at about 55-60, and spinners enjoy working with the wool. Fleece test at 19- 20 microns, which puts it in the class of cashmere. http://www.roundaboutsheepranch.com/wool_information.html The wool of...

The part of the garden that is near whatever walls are getting sunlight at the moment (varies with the time of year) will be warmer than the parts where the wall creates shade. The Victorians would grow peaches on the wall that you'd have your back to if you were facing south. The wall would...

So? All I can go by is what I find on the net. You can find the exact information I quoted on multiple websites. If you think this information is incorrect, take it up with these websites and not with me because I am in no mood to argue just for the sake of arguing.

This is probably their biggest expense for being organic and it is just a marketing ploy. If I were a farmer I would do what I do now in my own garden and simply explain what I do to my customers and then price my produce at the prevailing market rate so I know that I am not taking advantage of...

I am a native Floridian. What's wool?

My understanding is that Southdown and babydoll Southdown are not the exact same breed. It is thought that the babydoll is closer to what the Soutdown breed was in ancient times. And it is documented that babydoll Southdowns provided the original breeding stock that was used to develop the...

As I have said before, if you are truly organic you would not be relying on a single crop as your source of yearly income. A monocrop apple farm is not a legitimate comparison.

How is it obvious? You are ignoring the fact that most organic food is eaten locally near where it is produced. But so much conventional food is shipped thousands of miles that as much as half of the food that is produced is never eaten.

I'd like to see this documentation as well.

Being organic does not mean that you cannot use preventative measures; it just means you have to use other measures. I dont know of any organic alternatives to vaccinations and I dont know right off what the law or the private certification organizations say about vaccines, but organic farmers...

I can only go by what I am finding on the net. http://www.coonamessettfarm.com/id16.html Their wool is short stapled and fine. It grades at about 55-60, and spinners enjoy working with the wool. Fleece test at 19- 20 microns, which puts it in the class of cashmere.

I dont go out of my way to buy things just because they are labeled organic or natural because you never know or can never really trust the standards being lived up to. I cannot vouch for what goes into the compost that I buy for my garden- I get what I can afford, and I do use some non-organic...

I would venture that the planting was done by the wind or maybe some humans trying to do you a favor. A sunflower that gets eaten by birds or squirrels would be digested. There'd be nothing left to plant. A while back I saw a reference in an archival issue of Mother Earth News about making...