La Familia Davenpuerto

I mean how cool – “Do less” – seems ideal to me.

The Natural Way of Farming – let nature do the growing, not you!

“Natural farming is based on a nature free of human meddling and intervention. It strives to restore nature from the destruction wrought by human knowledge and
action.”

If you produce carrots for market, who grows them?

(Clue: the answer is not you!)

Although a thousand diseases attack plants in the fields and forests, nature strikes a balance; there never was any need for pesticides. Man grew confused when he identified these diseases as insect damage; he created with his own hands the need for labor and toil.
Man tries also to control weeds, but nature does not arbitrarily call one plant a weed and try to eradicate it. Nor does a fruit tree always grow more vigorously and bear more fruit when pruned. A tree grows best in its natural habit; the branches do not tangle, sunlight falls on every leaf, and the tree bears fully each year, not only in alternate years.

When I see how much effort goes into the production of olives, oranges and rice here in Cataluña, I am always amazed. When we first arrived here, our 200 olive trees had received no attention for some six or seven years, the land was full of weeds, and we had the biggest crop of olives that autumn than we have ever had since.

Hmmm ….

I can see that a laissez-faire take on our efforts from now on may well be worth considering. More on this as the year progresses.