Мы строим деревню / we are building ecovillage: победа агрономической мысли

The triumph of the agronomical thought

Yanne 09.02.14 в 11:02

The mistakes which were made in the course of many years and decades

Yanne 09.02.14 в 11:31

сan`t be corrected in short term.

Yanne 09.02.14 в 11:32

The nature should anew regenerate bit by bit.

Yanne 09.02.14 в 11:33

S.Holzer

Yanne 09.02.14 в 11:36

When I’d cultivated my first marrow, ten tomatoes and two peppers it was the real triumph of the agronomical thought. In the next village people may cultivate the turnip in size like a bucket and pickle the cucumbers in barrels, well, let them be. Let the skilled farmers, who live not far from us get water melons, grapes and pears. No matter. But it is important to do something in life at the first time with the help of your own hands and get real product of your labour.

Yanne 09.02.14 в 11:48

Farm deals is one more cause for mockeries of locals at us (the first cause is that we build strange houses, not as is customary in their village). In the farming we also stand out. And for the present moment we stand out not in the best sense - we can’t boast of our harvest.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 12:26

What is different in our garden?

Yanne 11.02.14 в 13:26

Many things differ.

Yanne 09.02.14 в 11:49

For example this is the waiver of ploughing. Everybody around us ploughs but we don`t do it.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 13:31

This is the usage of strange instruments like subsurface cultivator for example.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 14:04

These are unusual techniques of growing potatoes in straw.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 14:08

This is a hay covering of all surface of the garden.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 14:13

This is odd experiments with beds.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 14:14

This is the planting of the plants which are not eatable and decorative.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 14:16

I`ll explain in short why we do it as we do but will not write a lot because for the time present there is almost nothing to write about. You can read works by Ovsinsky, Fukuoka, Holzer, Kurdyumov, Bublik, Faulkner which were already mentioned above…Everything was written long time before us. I`ll just place a couple of quotations, which I`m fond of. Mostly I like the Japanese Fukuoka.

Yanne 11.02.14 в 14:32

While reading his ‘’The One-Straw Revolution’’ I was inspired by many moments, for example the author tells about his initial experiments with the soil the following: “My thought was that all cultivated plants must grow on its own and shouldn’t be raised by force. I acted with the assurance that everything must leave to the natural maturity. But I discovered that if you apply this idea without necessary training, your deals will be bad sufficiently long period. This is just mismanagement, not the “subsistence production”. Fukuoka spent about 30 years to obtain the results and develop his own method of natural management. So we still have time.

Yanne 16.02.14 в 05:38

Edward Faulkner writes in his book “Plowman's Folly” (free translation): “Finally the improvement of the soils, which today are still miserable, will depend not on fertilizers or some additions from the outside. The fact that we use them shows distinctly that we constantly spoil the soil. The matter is in the method of cultivation, which is designed only for the present day convenience.

Yanne 16.02.14 в 06:24

My own experience shows me that I am right and I just offer to refuse the tillage. I can’t imagine more reliable way. It is not easy at the beginning. First 2-3 years the soil is still hard, the organic matter adds with difficulty and mainly stays at the surface. But then everything goes right and the soil becomes more soft and fertile”.

Yanne 16.02.14 в 06:41

I decided that we are not starving and there is no need to grow up something promptly. We can easily devote some years to the slow, thoughtful development of our area and to the studies. For a what? It is again about «low impact» practice and philosophy. It is about the fact, that if there is the way of existence with full respect towards all alive species in the land, it is close to my way of thinking. It is about the fact, that we will leave after us alive and fertile environment which will be able to give the healthiest and the most full-fledged products. It may look like an utopia for somebody. There are also many people who many years cultivate potatoes, carrots, onions and many others cultures using traditional method. And it is difficult task to find the practicing followers of natural recovery farming… But if there is at least one person in the world who shares with his experience of complex farming perception, creative agriculture, which takes care not only about a human and his harvest necessities but also about the whole diversity of living beings…then this resonates with my heart and I`m ready to side with him. I like the idea to think about lives of frogs, insects, microbes and mushrooms.

Yanne 21.02.14 в 11:14

Many things which I observe in the farming upset me. I don’t see rationality in the poison, herbicide or fertilizer usage - they are the offence against the Nature. In case you just stare ahead it lightens the hard labour of farmer…But if you raise the eyes, even now you can see the consequences in a global scale which are caused by this method. That’s why I want something else.

Yanne 21.02.14 в 12:04

Without any doubts I can’t speak about it as long as I’ll get enough experience, with which I will be able to share, but now I stand at a crossroad. I can try any methods, because, Thank God my parents and I are not farmers. Thank God, I have not got corresponding education or just a grandmother, on whose dacha in childhood I would weed a garden. That `s why I have an opportunity to start from the very beginning and find various variants which finally will suit me. Not only to my mind but also to the heart. This is the reason why on our land we do what we do. Yes, it is not simple. Yes, the results are minimal. But something arises and develops bit by bit…

Yanne 21.02.14 в 14:48

Certainly, besides “classical authors” there are other materials, and they give power and hopes. For example I found a good film about the development of virgin lands soil without technical equipment “Land creation by Victor Schastlivcev”. (in Russian: “Zemletvorenie Victora Schastlivceva”.

Yanne 22.02.14 в 16:20

There are interesting articles written by our countryman Aleksandr Ivanovich kuznecov about the “Technologies of natural farming ”. To tell the truth I didn’t manage to find a personal contact with him, but I read his works with great pleasure. Also in Internet there are many subject forums, where you can find something about this theme...

Yanne 22.02.14 в 16:20

And without doubts our friends and neighbors give us big support…They patiently observe our experiments. Thank you very much! What should we do without your nurslings, seeding and sound pieces of advise!

Yanne 22.02.14 в 16:21

In many languages the word “ogorod” (“garden” in Russian) first of all is connected with a concept “ogorajivat`” (“to enclose”, “to bound” in Russian), but not with a concep of growing something on this territory. It is so from the ancient prehistoric times, when a human enclosed a lot of the territory, where wild edible plants were growing and protected it from some monkeys, who also had no opposition to eat those plants. Much later the human began to observe and explore how he could interfere in the natural plants life in order to get more food. He began to transplant new edible plants from other places to his “ogorod” one by one. First garden techniques appeared. The agriculture began to develop. We, like in ancient times, have enclosed our lots with wild grass and are observing, watching and protecting it from village hourses, who graze on our territory. Step by step we learn the science which is new for us.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 07:27

What is inconveniently with garden: the experiments with it closely connected with seasons, and if you have “understood” something in this year, you will be able to prove your guesses only next year. That`s why the process is very slow.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 07:38

I will note a couple of moments straight away which nowadays for me personally gives the direction in garden experiments:

Yanne 23.02.14 в 07:42

-In my lot I want to develop hand work and natural farming only.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 07:43

- The developing must be gradually: it must widen from the house to the sides. (See the idea about 4 Zones in the lot in the book by Bill Mollison “Permaculture One”).

Yanne 23.02.14 в 07:47

- The developing of a virgin soil must be carried out first of all with a full mulching of mowing, which we have in a great amount.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 07:50

The main course for the next some years is the activation of soil fertility and recovering of it, and only after it we will think about growing.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 07:52