I'm watching a PBS local show, fella is farming a 1 acre plot, garden veggies it looks like. Organic.
Looks kinda neat.
But he keeps talking about how we need to be sustainable.
Then he describes his place, and it is a hoop building made of synthetic materials, he waters the crop with a garden hose which is pumped water not from the sky, and he says he is on miserable clay (I can relate!) and so he had truckers bring in all the compost he could find, 25 tons that year.
What parts of this operation are sustainable, really, and how is it different from other farming operations?
I like what he does, be happy to buy or eat what he produces, encourage others to do much the same if they want.
where I get lost is the constant, every other scene of the documentary, mention of how we all need to be more sustainable, need to be better farming like his is doing.......
I'm just lost on what 'sustainable' means here? It doesn't look like it is, any more than any other farm, when he builds a greenhouse, pumps in water, hauls in many tons of compost? Where is the sustainability?
Its a neat farm, cool, but?
Paul
Looks kinda neat.
But he keeps talking about how we need to be sustainable.
Then he describes his place, and it is a hoop building made of synthetic materials, he waters the crop with a garden hose which is pumped water not from the sky, and he says he is on miserable clay (I can relate!) and so he had truckers bring in all the compost he could find, 25 tons that year.
What parts of this operation are sustainable, really, and how is it different from other farming operations?
I like what he does, be happy to buy or eat what he produces, encourage others to do much the same if they want.
where I get lost is the constant, every other scene of the documentary, mention of how we all need to be more sustainable, need to be better farming like his is doing.......
I'm just lost on what 'sustainable' means here? It doesn't look like it is, any more than any other farm, when he builds a greenhouse, pumps in water, hauls in many tons of compost? Where is the sustainability?
Its a neat farm, cool, but?
Paul