Some crops like strawberries, which are one of the most heavily chemical dependent crops, require quite a bit of weeding. John Jevons many years ago wrote a book about how to grow all your own food in a minuscle crop with 20 minutes a day.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:33:06PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >Organic farming probably needs as much if not more power than current
> >farming does.
>
> Organic requires lots more stoop labor, I'm told.
>
> Doug
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