Reply #108: Growing food is a wasteful business [View All]

[Grinchie]

By Nature, you can't eat every morsel, otherwise you'd get sick from the food that didn't make it to the point where it is edible. This is the "10% to Nature" philosphy that Fukuoka mentions in his book "The One Straw Revolution" which is a timeless classic, and started me on the path of organic farming.

Ten Percent to Nature means allowing loss of the so called bumper crops and allow the plant to do their thing naturally.

We see ludicrously large crops from industrialize argriculture, but nobody questions whether this actually helps or harms the food.

I can tell you one thing, a woman is going to be physically stress after having 10 kids, yet this is what we demand from our food plants annually.

We need to slow down, and let the plants operate at their own chosen rhythm instead of jacking them up on chemicals to force more production out of them.