(“Till & No-Till” image[1] from Health Care Without Harm)
We must regenerate the farm to fight climate change for the
better and, to do that, first we foster primate change! Primates – People must change first!
The past comes back
always, either to hail us or to haunt us. “Primate Change” both hails and
haunts me.
I first wrote about Climate Change more than 14 years ago,
on 03 March 2007, published in the American
Chronicle, “Primate Change? Or Climate Change? You Choose! – The Blogal
Village Voice.” Unfortunately, that digital media has since become a victim of
primate change; fortunately, I have a full reproduction of all 4,042 words of
it, including the image of the ape (inset above) in my blog The American Frank[2] published on WordPress.com. I was very serious about what I was writing –
that essay spread to thirteen (13) pages! single-space, short bond paper. The
blog was free, as this one is on Blogger.com,
which has the added attractions of being owned, managed and innovated on by Google.
No, I had no idea that in drumming up the world’s awareness
on climate change, former US Vice President Al
Gore would win the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2007, shared with
the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for
Climate Change (IPCC), awarded 12 October 2007.
Today, on my own initiative, I embark seriously on another
intellectual adventure: Regenerative
Agriculture, or Regenerative
Farming – with the shortcuts ReFarming
for the whole concept and ReFarm for
the process.
Example:
Instead of disc-plowing the field,
ReFarm it by using a rotavator.
But first, let me list the things I am considering right now
for Coverage and Content of Regenerative Farming, that is, instead of Conventional
Farming (ConFarming):
1.
Brief Histories of ReFarming & ConFarming
2.
ReFarming & Business Model Selection
3.
ReFarming & Field Selection
4.
ReFarming & Crop Selection
5.
ReFarming & Seed Selection
6.
ReFarming & Soil Enrichment Selection
7.
ReFarming & Field Preparation
8.
ReFarming & Seed Preparation
9.
ReFarming & Seeding / Transplanting
10. ReFarming
& Irrigation
11. ReFarming
& Weed Control
12. ReFarming
& Pest Control
13. ReFarming
& Rouging
14. ReFarming
& Harvesting
15. ReFarming
& Drying The Harvest
16. ReFarming
& Bagging & Storage
17. ReFarming
& Processing
18. ReFarming
& Marketing
19. ReFarming
& Preparing For Next Season
Consider
#1: Now, why is “Business Model Selection” (BMS) in the list?
In what I shall now refer to as Frank A Hilario’s ReFarming
Bible (Slogan: “To ReForm Agriculture”), it
is best that everything
begins with BMS – the farmer has to select whether he will farm alone, with a
group or association, or with a true-blue cooperative.
So, where is regenerative agriculture in that list? Good
question! So, there’s more where this is coming from.
I
am glad to tell you now that with regenerative agriculture, I am loving agriculture the second time. And
now I know it’s true – “Love is lovelier
the second time around!”@517
No comments:
Post a Comment