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This is an article by Nicholas von Hoffman in the Nation.  Somehow or other, the message must get across to our authorities that it is modern intensive farming that must be controlled: http://www.geocities.com/dqcleanchicken2/avianfluoverthecuckoosnest/avianfluoverthecuckoosnest.html The more detailed report from GRAIN, an international NGO promoting sustainable agriculture, is here: http://www.geocities.com/dqcleanchicken2/GRAIN/grainbriefings2006fowlplay.html Please print out these articles or forward to as many people as possible, so they are aware of the issues behind the...

We try to be as sustainable as possible at our farm.  We don't use electricity, minimise the use of diesel ( we are experimenting with our own bio-diesel), and minimise inputs into the farm. Here is how we shade seedlings from the sun - no plastic sheets, etc., just some branches and good old dried lalang.     Some farmers grow mushrooms and sprouts on sawdust and claim...

    This bush of creepers were all green.  Within two weeks of spraying our bio-nutrients, it started to flower abundantly.   Our high Qi compost and compost tea...

We were selling our first crop of organic cucumbers and customers were asking whether we have those mini Taiwanese cucumbers.  We were puzzled for a while as we thought we were selling Taiwanese...

Our Prime Minister visited our associated goat farm at Serting. Here's a Bernama news report on the visit.  The guy on the left with sunglasses in the accompanying photo is HS Wong.  The white...