Welcome to 2012! We’re in the dead season right now at the farm… all the plants have died back, the bees are dormant for the winter, and most of the other hippie farmers I know are away traveling or hibernating in their homes, catching up on sleep from the other 10 months of the year that are pure insanity.
To keep this little chunk of the internet warm and cozy, I leave you with wishes for a happy new year, as wall as a cheery, forward-looking article about organic farming and how it produces as much on an industrial scale as the pesticide-and-monoculture farming that is so popular right now, dispelling the myth that we need chemicals to effectively feed our massive human population:
Study debunks myths on organic farms (from the Star Phoenix)
