Sometimes I have to laugh at conventional Agriculture, whose camp I was once in, when they talk of getting rid of weeds. We have used enough chemical in the last 50 years that if getting rid of weeds was a possibility they wouldn’t have to use another chemical for the next 200 years. Instead all they are doing is making them mad! They think they have one conquered and another one meaner and madder takes its’ place. Now not only do they feel they have to spray in the spring but now in the fall also. Now they spray before they plant and after they plant and what do they get? Chemical resistant weeds. So now they have to come up with an even more potent chemical to control the weed they created. When will they learn that is better to work with Mother Nature because they sure aren’t going to control her!

I have discovered one thing on this Mother’s Day 2012. When Mom told me when I was young that I was growing like a weed, she was lying to me. If that were true I would now be 20 feet tall! We have one CSA member atBlue Springsand one regular customer atColumbiathat are celebrating their first Mother’s Day with newborns at home. We want to congratulate them and wish all of our mothers a Happy Mother’s Day. We have been blest to have wonderful mothers and to still have them with us.

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