資源回收recycling

10/7 Sharing Farm Weeding

分享農場

秋初，農場一下子變得十分寂靜。在溫哥華，夏日的陽光很容易吸引人投入農作，秋日的細雨很容易將人困在房子內。

According to Wikipedia, a weed in a general sense is a plant that is considered by the user of the term to be a nuisance, and normally applied to unwanted plants in human-controlled settings, especially farm fields and gardens, but also lawns, parks, woods, and other areas. Therefore, a weed is not necessary to be pulled all the time. As long as a weed is valued by users, like some Shumei natural agricultural believers in Japan, it stays in the same place no matter it is pulled or not. By doing so, all the nutrients obtained by a weed go back to the earth.



拜秋雨所賜，菜畦還是生意盎然，尤其是綠草。今天的工作是除草，除完草後的菜畦霎時顯得寂寥。成堆的草和不受青睞的植物將投入堆肥裡，等分解完成後再度投入菜畦的生產線。

Since I like to train and harvest the strongest plants, I prefer to keep some weeds on the farm. Maybe, this is my excuse to weed less often.

記得曾聽過一位實踐日本秀明農法的農民說過，哪裡拔的草就躺在哪裡，這樣從土地吸收的養分將能如實地回到土地裡。懶人如我十分贊同這種說法。

可惜，在馬路旁的大樹永遠難以完成落葉歸根的天命。

Poor trees along the roads hardly have the opportunity to recycle their falling leaves into the soil.