permaculture

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Yes Douglas. We still work with horses here instead of a tractor. But most 
of the work the horses do is heavy transport. We are basically no till 
except for digging potatoes and that we do by hand.

As to rising and turning in with the sun, that would be quite difficult at 
our latitude. We have about 7 hours of often weak light in winter and 7 
hours of night in summer. And most hard routine work is done in winter when 
animals are inside and need to be fed and kept clean. At the moment our 
sheep are lamming on the mountain and the weather is so foul that a new born 
lamb would not survive outside for more than a few hours. We are up and 
about with an electric torch at all hours.

All the best,
John

> As biological creatures within a biological world, humans need to
> re-conceive their function and adopt the role of Caretakers of the Planet.
>
> Rising and turning in with the sun would save a lot of energy. (John
> still farms his land in Ireland with a plow horse, I assume. Do your
> consider him one of your family)?
>
> Douglas
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