Rural/Farm Life

Farmer-Rick

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60. Just checking in to say hi

Thu Nov 30, 2017, 09:37 AM

Nov 2017

I posted on the General info board the other day and they recommended I subscribe here.

I'm a small farmer from east TN and raise sheep and grow organic vegetables. We don't have the organic label. We have the Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) label.

We have reduced the amount of farming we do now but we still love it.

I'm hoping to learn some things.

It continually amazes me how this small plot of about 30 acres has gone from a pesticide ridden, round up covered, overgrazed by cattle patchy dirt and eroded shale hillside to a lush grass and diverse ecosystem in less than 12 years mostly by us doing nothing. Mother nature will heal herself if we just give her a chance.

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