Helen and Hugo’s Organic Farming Blog

Soil is a living organism. It is central to healthy farming. Compost is a main factor in creating a biologically health soil.

It supports our drive at Farming Secrets that all farmers seek ways for more sustainable farming for the benefit of all. Ask for our Free “Starter Tool Kit” by going to: http://www.farmingsecrets.com/ to find out more.

Organic farming is about a lot more than removing pesticides: it’s about creating an ecosystem that’s healthy from the soil up. Visit Margaret at Spring Hills Farm for a lesson in transitioning from conventional to natural methods of farming and the positive effect that results.

Watch this Amazing video about healthy farm and healthy you.

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John Evans shows the secret for growing healthy enormous World Record vegetables is organic Bountea compost tea.

It supports our drive at Farming Secrets that all farmers seek ways for more sustainable farming for the benefit of all. Ask for our Free “Starter Tool Kit” by going to: http://www.farmingsecrets.com/ to find out more.

Mary and Allen Witham, owners of Bunnell Organics in Bunnell, Florida, tell us how they got involved with organic farming and what they have available for sale to the public.

Watch this Amazing video that tell us how they got involved with organic farming.

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Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, talks about the importance of healthy soil in your garden.

Watch this Amazing video about healthy soil.

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With healthy, natural soil, learn how your plants and the environment can thrive in this free gardening video about how to use organic fertilizers on plants.

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There is an amazing technology from Japan that lets you Grow Vegetables, Fruits, and Grains with no Chemicals, herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides.

Watch this Amazing video. Totally organic, holistic, and free of pollution.

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Blischke has been living the life of a farmer for the past 13 years. Before that, she commuted to Boston where she worked as an administrator for the federal Women, Infants and Children program that helps low-income families obtain milk and other nutritious foods.
After her first child was born in 1986 she traded her suit, blouse and high heels, for jeans, a tractor and braids. Money was tight then, and it is now, but the tradeoff is that her children Travis, 21, and Stephanie, 14, grew up surrounded by the bounty nature provides.
The farm has expanded from producing just fruits and vegetables to one that sells eggs, herbs, honey, home-made soap, goat’s yarn, lip balm and hot pepper sauce.
Most of her products are certified organic.
She uses modern techniques and equipment, but the sweat and hard work is the same as it was more than a 100 years ago when the South Shore boasted hundreds of farms. Today, there are only a handful, and most only grow produce. Profits are rare, and every year is a struggle, Blischke says, as she stops hoeing a row of potatoes to watch two birds whiz by overhead.

It supports our drive at Farming Secrets that all farmers seek ways for more sustainable farming for the benefit of all. Ask for our Free “Starter Tool Kit” by going to: http://www.farmingsecrets.com/ to find out more.

Watch as a group of Indian villagers revert back from conventional farming methods to farming the way their forefathers farmed. They understand that by conventionally farming, they have put themselves in a treadmill situation, where each year, soil fertility goes down and consequently every year one must increase the amount of inputs going into the soil and subsequently increase costs.
By farming organically these farmers make more profits. As fertility is brought back into the soil the inputs will be lower. The farmers save money by eliminating fertilizers and pesticides as well as not having the cost of buying seeds. Then when they market their cotton the price of organic cotton is 8 – 15% higher compared to conventional cotton. This group being Fair trade receives a further 20 -30% consequently increasing the price more than 40%!

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The other day Mark Howard Beers died. He was a doctor and researcher who, with a team from Harvard, investigated the files of 850 residents in nursing homes. In doing so he found that the drugs prescribed for the elderly caused side effects that often went unnoticed - side effects such as confusion, physical tremors, lethargy and urination.

Based on that study Beers went on to establish a list of drugs known to have side effects on the elderly. This list is called the Beers Criteria. It was expanded in 2003 and is consulted by those working with the elderly. The list has made the medical establishment aware of drugs with “side effects far more destructive than any potential therapeutic benefit”

This article caught my eye as it exactly reflected the experience I had when my mother became incapable of looking after herself after several strokes and became a resident in a nursing home. For a woman who had never had any major health issues, (OK high cholesterol and blood pressure for which she was medicated - another story in itself!) she suddenly was being medicated with drugs including anti depressants which had to be discontinued each time due to the side effects. She experienced lethargy, fitting, confusion, urination and was sometimes hospitalised from these new problems. It was an extremely distressing time and I found very little support from her doctors even when they acknowledged the problem!

What to do?

Firstly stay well yourself by eating mineral dense nutrient rich food and work out a plan to avoid these experiences. If you choose homeopathy and other natural treatments they rarely have any side effects. Secondly be aware at least of the Beers Criteria so that you can ensure that the drugs on it are avoided. You may just save a life!

Ref: The Age, Mar 27th 2009, Obituaries p.14