I wasn't worried about getting covid, and did nothing new to "protect myself" when the panic storm was unleashed. But the predictable economic destruction that occurred due to the panic, created a free time niche in which I was able to advance my theory on how to maintain good health. I wanted a higher grade source of, what I regard as "truly organic" wheat, and I invested in a front yard system to give me that effective "vaccine"! Here is a photo story of my "cutting edge" project!
I do not have great land on which to grow wheat. It is very sandy. But it has never been subjected to negative agricultural practices and it is close at hand and easy for me to work with. We have had cattle for years - totally organic cattle and they have lived on totally organic hay - and they have produced lots of totally organic manure. Well, here we go! My theory is that high quality grain needs to come from land that has lots of organic matter including animal manure.
I have a 2.5 acre front yard. I had a very large manure pile, built up over many years, and that material was moved to the proposed grain field and spread there.
I managed to acquire the necessary implements pictured at scrap value prices due to their being left behind in the agricultural "rush hour to bigness".
Although the land is sandy, it has been pasture for years and then the added manure was mixed in very effectively.
The seed drill was also purchased for a song and a single section of the original 3 section unit is perfect for my small field.
A huge factor in my system is a pivot irrigation boom which I built out of scrap. It took work, but it was vital given the sandy soil and our being located in a dry zone, seemingly impacted by our location near a city and perhaps due to geographic factors.
A plus of our location and perhaps a spinoff of the sandy land, is a huge well capacity. A lot of effort went into setting up a water distribution system to feed the irrigation boom. Without that element of the total system, the project would not have been successful. There is a lesson here under the nose of anyone who takes time to think. Complex Life systems always involve a meshing of independent systems. Such interdependent complexity cannot happen without the planning and creative execution of a "mind". The existence of any one of us hangs on that reality, a reality that we rub our noses in minute by minute, often very ignorantly. Are you aware of an "evolution 911" panic line? My efforts and theory for action in this project hangs on the thinking of Al Howard who had a degree of appreciation that agricultural players are dealing with a designed system, not a dreamland casino of chance. If you lose sight of that reality and start playing the ag game based solely on dollar signs as your guide - look out! The short term may please you but don't complain when longer term side effects cut you down.
I definitely had some weed growth and I went to some trouble to locate an inexpensive self propelled swather (see the Small Farm Canada letter lower on page). You may get a hint that I am enjoying great satisfaction as I pilot my old unit around my prize postage stamp field!
How many farmers have a self propelled combine for a half hour harvest? I have a purpose in my efforts, and planning and work translates into a relatively old guy and his family having active lives without medical expenditure and the associate pain and time loss. I eventually did get covid. Or at least a rapid test indicated that the short term and minor issue was covid. When I see the results of the covid/vaccination panic and the amazing capacity of society to continue pretending the whole show wasn't a disaster, I marvel. And it gives me considerable pleasure that the episode allowed me to have a great deal of enjoyment with my "disease immunity" project and to have thumbed my nose at the billion dollar vaccine project that makes MANY people uneasy that they have been injected with a potential time bomb.
Increasingly, fewer and fewer people have access to wheat with the characteristics of the grain you see in the hopper of my 40 year old Gleaner.
Small Farm Canada had an article asking for ideas on how small farms could deal with the challenge of harvesting grain. I sent an email relating my experience, not expecting to get any sort of response, the usual result of my minority viewpoint gestures. But, without asking me for permission, they printed the email, less a few lines that weren't quite in line with the woke sensitive world we live in, and the result is shown below. The response fills in several gaps in my photo description story.
The Small Farm page uses a photo of a grain growing effort I conducted at least 30 years ago. And in their second response they appear to have used a photo of my Kubota working up my front yard. All of the photos used on this page were included with the email but the historic shot was what was used by the magazine.
