• My wife watering the Milpa.
•I have a small plot in my backyard (10 feet x 15 feet) with tomatoes, melons, pumpkin, corn, and peppers that I planted not too long ago. There are no rows or any order to the placement of the plants.
• The Milpa on May 15, 2008.
• My wife read the article also and we were inspired to add beans and squash to the mix to make it a more authentic Milpa. In another 3 months I'm expecting all the vegetables to grow together making somewhat of a vegetable smorgasbord. I hope this farming practice does in fact create natural barriers to disease.
Does anyone know if this constitutes a real Milpa? Please let me know. I'll keep you posted as our Milpa grows.
I have been reading The WIP since it's inception. I am pleased to see where it has been, where it now and where the leadership will take it into the future. Happy Anniversary and keep up the good work.
Posted by RYAN | March 12, 2010 12:38 PM
Thanks. That was easy and a nice thing to do.
Posted by RYAN | December 13, 2008 2:47 PM
CERN is an ambitious project which is about to come to completion. At least as far as the engineering is concerned. Data analysis will be ongoing and will perhaps be the most difficult because of the vast amounts of data which will need to be analyzed. There is so much data that the scientists at CERN created a filter to eliminate unnecessary data. Data which passes these filters will be further analyzed. My concern with this approach is that the projects intended purpose is both verification of existing theories and also discovery. These filters were put in place based on our current knowledge and thereby eliminated the unexpected and hampered the potential for discovery. Is anyone else concerned about CERN's data filter approach?
Posted by RYAN | September 10, 2008 6:39 AM
Scientists have always revised their estimates based on new techniques or technologies. I wonder when they are going to acknowledge they can never be certain about accurate dating techniques.
Posted by RYAN | March 8, 2008 7:37 AM