vari, envi men One day I wok(\" up t.o the {act that I v~ a~-~ an organic gardcnc~ without l and 1 had bccn farmil/g ar, d ~,~ardcl~ ~g ac~,dil ~g to old , Vctn~ont prh~ciples ol: respect fo~ 11~ la~d ~,nd ~tw world oi / naiule. Wc did things in ways that meant rct,.lrnin4 wh,lt ( we took away {tom the soil, and lcfrail~in~ flora upset/ ~?, i the balance. In the toolh~)u~,c wc Mu] some Boldcaux mixturu , ,l~d Black Leaf 40 for pc~>t deterrcnl, but ~ ,. l CX(( I>[ V( F; OCLdSi()ll~lllV iOF ~;OnlC 1 /OFlllOkl!; illV,tSiOll ~i~,LlalI on ,~n cxot.ic pi.~nt that didn t bc[~)lG in :clnlo~lt, ,,, anv;v,~,. Y ll~LIg}~ wc did ~u_~t systematically lnakc ~.olnp~d ~\" piic.~, ~vc did put all our ol~aJ~,i~ rc~idut,~ ~n~ the lar~d, bu~,~u~c \" that ~ ~l~; our fi Ll4al %/ankcc habit. I._ ~;g411i~ ~;ardclwr~ at, n~ K r~ ithc~ poi~o~ t~ KiJl pu~4s aI~d weed> n~,r pIcmtx~d L cal Ik ,~ilizcr.~. II yuu arc a~ o~b~ani~ :~arSui~ur. L~u rely o~ ~,, tJ~r lmiu~ai ~ (h. t, ~f ~_ontr~] 4mi the nat~.ir,:I J( IiiJixuFs [h,~l ~me troi~ the d(,doml;)o~ition a,~d ;l~il~ci,lIiz4]iol~ ~)t ol~.tdni~ ()vr farm at thaIiime wa~,varicd -with ~n o~ha~d I,. ic, hen ards there. I.~i~4 ba~]~ ~,e cral ~,~rdcn>, bcr; p,,.t~hc ~, hccigc~, a ru,~ni~!4 brook, a ~lwamp, aI~d Iic Idy, bc ond slFetc ]ring to pa.qurcs or, ~he iov, er dopes oJ a wo~)dcd crm<)nt mountain, The,re wa,.~ ~) mo:1oc~ilUir(~ ,IIl. ~ ]II. It . t~tlt V~C did have a lot ~)~ ~hickcn~. With varictv like tim/ there i.~ an cntiFe populat,on of ~miure ,; control~ ali,,x, 4~J working all the time in the air, around the pJam~, in lhr soil, and in the healthy in~crchangu of nutrients aud amibi otic% in SOILItioi~ in thc watc r of the . ,oil. Khc soil ~,/ru~lu~(: and the soil solution, t know now, were conl.inuallv rcplcl~- ishcd by the organic matter put out on the ground trom Ihc henhouses, the vegeL~ble garbage, the mown gras~, the au tumn leaves, and the weeds we threw out. VVe had pJenty of wasps, bees, ladvbu~s, a {ew pravin~ mm~tises, and many
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