Amish farmers are studying plant immunology in order to grow healthy organic produce free of harmful chemicals.
Amish farmers avoided the draft during WWII, even choosing to face jail time over going to war because they didn’t believe in combat, and now they are taking up a different fight altogether – peacefully – by studying plant immunology in order to grow healthy organic produce without pesticides, herbicides, and other harmful chemicals that biotech companies are lavishing on crops like cheap perfume on an uncouth lady.
Samuel Zook, an Amish farmer recently explained to a reporter:
“If you really stop and think about it, though, when we go out spraying our crops with pesticides, that’s really what we’re doing. It’s chemical warfare, bottom line.”
Zook should know what its like to try to grow without pesticides and still get rid of pests that would ravish his crops. He owns a 66-acre farm that was once riddled with fungus and […]
Stephen, There are lots of people who have been working on this for quite some time. I have been a member of Virginia Association For Biological Agriculture for many years. And At our farm, the carbon discussion joins the food ,soil and water discussion. Sequestering carbon is what makes a good soil ,which makes a healthy plant, which makes a healthy person. We also make Bio-Char ,pure carbon ,and the only carbon negative technology we know of,which lasts in the soil for over 500 years and is home to good microbes all those years . Microbes are the main reason we exist and are the workhorse of the soil. Its all about the biology.
The Amish community is precisely where I would expect a world-changing philosophy to emanate from. They are brilliant in their close relationship to the Earth and the soil. As my grandfather always said and I have always believed: A person who lives close to the Earth can know God and Reality better than anyone.