Comments on: Store Wars http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/store_wars.html Dispatches from a Small Business Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:41:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: markm http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/store_wars.html/comment-page-1#comment-1188 markm Sun, 22 May 2005 22:44:59 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/05/store_wars.html #comment-1188 <p>That's only if you manage to grow any crops that don't get eaten by bugs. I grew up on a small cherry farm. Chemical fertilizers were simply more convenient (and far less smelly) than dickering with one of our dairy farmer neighbors for some organic fertilizer, but without insecticides and fungicides there would have been few cherries that weren't moldy or scarred by bug bites - and other bugs would have been chewing the leaves off the trees, too. Forty acres of nothing but cherry trees is a highly unnatural condition that attracts all sorts of bugs and fungi that specialize in attacking cherries or cherry trees. And that is a <i>tiny</i> farm that was Dad's hobby, not his source of income. I don't think anyone was making a family living off of less than 320 acres anywhere around there, and think of how many more pests that big of a monoculture would attract. </p> That’s only if you manage to grow any crops that don’t get eaten by bugs. I grew up on a small cherry farm. Chemical fertilizers were simply more convenient (and far less smelly) than dickering with one of our dairy farmer neighbors for some organic fertilizer, but without insecticides and fungicides there would have been few cherries that weren’t moldy or scarred by bug bites – and other bugs would have been chewing the leaves off the trees, too. Forty acres of nothing but cherry trees is a highly unnatural condition that attracts all sorts of bugs and fungi that specialize in attacking cherries or cherry trees. And that is a tiny farm that was Dad’s hobby, not his source of income. I don’t think anyone was making a family living off of less than 320 acres anywhere around there, and think of how many more pests that big of a monoculture would attract.

]]> By: KurtP http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/store_wars.html/comment-page-1#comment-1187 KurtP Thu, 19 May 2005 02:11:53 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/05/store_wars.html #comment-1187 <p>I'd always thought of getting into "organic farming". <br /> Just think, you don't use fertilizer (man-made, anyway) or pesticides. Just sow it, let it grow and havest it and then sell it for twice the price of regular crops.....</p> <p>"Sweeeet" -Cartman</p> I’d always thought of getting into “organic farming”.
Just think, you don’t use fertilizer (man-made, anyway) or pesticides. Just sow it, let it grow and havest it and then sell it for twice the price of regular crops…..

“Sweeeet” -Cartman

]]> By: A Small Victory http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/store_wars.html/comment-page-1#comment-1189 A Small Victory Wed, 18 May 2005 21:19:23 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/05/store_wars.html #comment-1189 <strong>Carnival of the Force!</strong> Aside from my own geek blogging, there are a TON of bloggers out there joining me in having a raging Star Wars hard on this week. To put it bluntly. I'm going to try to track down all the posts... Carnival of the Force!

Aside from my own geek blogging, there are a TON of bloggers out there joining me in having a raging Star Wars hard on this week. To put it bluntly. I’m going to try to track down all the posts…

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