Other than Farm Blog

One of the greatest things about rainy season is that the nature takes over the entire farming process by deep watering and cleansing the field.  She entirely takes over and keep us out of the field literally.  Walking on the saturated ground makes mud and condition worse, thus best way to avoid this is to stay out of the field. As seedballs and cover crop go, this first rain is a rejuvenation and re-establishment of the process.  by now we have established quite a bit of perennial cover crop, thus the reseeding is much less.  Yet ever changing nature of the field and soil conditions, there will be more cover crop seeding to do this winter. Although we use many cover crops to preserve top soil, best cover is contour rows of tea themselves.

When man does not interfere the work of nature, instead realizing the unity between man and nature, the work gets done just by drinking a cup of tea. I like seeing the plants grow without watering, weeding or fertilizers or pesticides.  One part of my mind speaks of its urgency to go take care of it, or else the plants will be buried in weeds and lack of water and nutrients will make the plants weak and eventually perish.  Other half of my mind speaks of taking it easy and let nature take care of it, and go fishing or something and forget about the existence of the small problems instead. There is a fine balance of the working system in natural environment without excessive work done by man or overtaken by wild energy of nature.  Finding the right timing, balance and methods will enable us to use this natural farming principle to work.  Then finally we can appreciate small wonder of nature, and truly be exhilarated by a flock of birds flying over as beautiful.

I have a serious tendency to forget about this blog.  There are a lot happening on the farm and it would be nice to just post a short blog of what I noticed on and around the farm.  Hopefully a new iPhone app would help. Today was an anticipated day of cutting back from the last harvest day.  Didn't happen due to rain.  Rainy season has started already, it seems.  still got a lot to do, but when it rains, it's nice to just let go and perhaps go fishing.