| Hello Mediterranean growers and greetings from a climate-mate in California!
It's likely you are more aware than Americans are that the world is running out of oil and many places are running out of suitable climate for growing crops--due mostly to the indiscriminate use of oil. Oil powers agriculture everywhere so what are we, and our children too, going to do for something to eat?
I'm writing to invite you to take a look at our website which outlines a model and a method for very efficient growing. I'm 71 years old and my boys and I operate a market gardening business that that successfully competes with growers that use 100 horsepower tractors. We work exclusively by hand with simple tools. Our soil is tilled by earthworms that live and work under a cool layer of organic mulch we get from the neighbors.
The mulch also takes care of most of the need to weed and fertilize. It keeps soil shaded and cool reducing greatly the need for irrigation. We grow in the easiest and most efficient ways and are able to get 2 and even 3 crops per year off our beds by growing seedlings in flats for the first 4 to 6 weeks and transplanting almost everything.
Our work is inspired by Ruth Stout, an American garden writer of some years back known as the "Mother of Mulch", and Masanobu Fukuoka the the "Daddy of Natural Farming". It's theoretical base is General Systems Theory given to science by Ludwig von Bertananffy
With the Wolf at the Door we can't fool around wasting time turning the ground and making compost.
Please click the link below and good wishes to you all.
John Warner, Madera Whole Systems Agriculture
http://www.wholesystemsag.org
Hand-scale market growers since 1996
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