frams, factories and gardens

Farms today are no more apart of nature then the creations and hybrids that scientists make in labs. That does not mean that a farm can’t be natural though, it just means that most are not. I have worked on and off sense I was five on a biodynamic farm. Everything was reused and nothing was wasted. We and the plants had formed a symbiotic relationship. The potatoes that we grow never were touched by pesticides and we found good means of keeping insects at by bringing in other less important plats that the bugs could eat. But the potato farms in Idaho are so different I was fascinated to read about pollens views on potatoes and how they had truly adapted humans to their needs. “Fast food Nation” by Eric Schlosser, proved that potatoes are the most wildly used food resource in the United States. Idaho is the potage state and most of the farms are anything but natural. But these are large scale production. Local farmers live a very different life style then the large potato factories. They care for the plants and find ways to work with the world around them. These small scale farmers are gardeners and so those farms are no different then gardens. Farms work with the environment large scale production facility of potatoes genetically alters or not are factories not farms.