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31-08-2004, 05:12 PM

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sherwindu expounded:

No, no! You obviously missed the irony of my statement. What I meant
was
you pursue this organic kick like a religion.

And you pursue your chemical kick like a religion. I'd rather follow
the organic cult. As a matter of fact, I do.

That is my style also.

I do appreciate this thread. There were points brought out of which I
either had not been aware, had forgotten, or not realized the importance.
For instance, I have left fruit on the ground for the winter birds. I will
now confine that to one area which will be destroyed (covered with a good
coating of fresh manure!) before springtime is in bloom. Two years ago, I
taped some wonderful video of one of our feathered friends eating apples,
something that is a great thing to have. Though we put up a nesting box
for it, the squirrels took it over so he/she nested elsewhere. :-(

Last summer, while driving in the car, I heard a marvelous show on NPR
about a farm in the Midwest that farms all organically with both livestock
and crop rotation. It was a fairly large farm and outproduced all of its
chemical-using neighbors, quite impressively (yes, they gave actual
production rates of the farms in the area). Did anyone here, by some
remote chance, hear the program? I was driving with no opportunity of
writing down anything, and my short-term memory is often garbage, one of
the side effects of my son's death. I would dearly appreciate if anyone
heard that program and knows where the farm is located and lets us/me know.

Something I've often not understood is how so many people could exist
without chemicals and produce sufficient food for so many thousands of
years and we backyard gardeners sometimes feel the need to grab the
chemicals. My ladybugs and birds are my pesticides. My elbow is my
herbicide. It works. Good fortune has contributed to my garden, but
respect for the critters and plants has probably also helped tremendously.
I read the cautions on the labels of "that stuff" and it scares me; if
this is what they admit to, what else is there? It seems logical to me
that they will not put even one precaution on that label that they are not
required to place there; what else do they know (and deny) that they do
not place there? (And, yes, that concern extends to commercially marketed
food products.)

Glenna

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