Good Organic Gardening

Two-part harmony

The notion of something for nothing may be very appealing in a world where people expect so much for so little effort, but everything comes at a price.

In physics, the law of conservation of energy reminds us that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another. Essentially, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Despite today’s technological advances, we’re still required to labour and toil to produce food, but we can work smarter by working with nature.

To put this working relationship into perspective, though, we need to recognise that we depend on nature for our survival — but nature doesn’t need

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