David Attenborough's Private Life of Plants is a most fascinating documentary on plants. Every screenshot is awesome. It makes me wonder how many different types of seeds are out there in the garden that haven't had a chance to grow.
I would love to have a farm though i don't have green fingers. It may not turn out to be a farm. Maybe i am a naturalist farmer. I believe nature should be allowed to flourish naturally. My role as a farmer is to have access to witness nature. To have a chance to be aware of the environment is to feel the abundance of miracles all around.
Each time a flower bud blooms, one wonders how nature is able to create such an amazing colour. Sprinkle a few dried loosened globes of amarynth and watch the beautiful blooms particularly when that first hint of purple appears. You may see lots of amarynths along the roadside but nothing beats having the bloom right where you can take a close up look.
Life as we know it now has suffered so much interference. Our way of life is mostly unnatural. Just as conventional farmers line their farms with rows of cabbage and rows of corn, that kind of planting though efficient for the farmer, strips the ground of its natural nutrients. Similar plants strip the ground of similar nutrients and invariably the ground ends up lacking in some nutrients.
It is unnatural for people to work in a confined environment with a very defined scope for the sake of efficiency. Just as it is unnatural for people to consume a specific type of food no matter how good it is. Invariably, living this kind of life strips lives of certain fulfilments.
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