Manual Or Mental Work, Better Have A System Of Doing More By Doing Less!

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Above, Facebook sharing by Joy Duldulao: “Mariknak ti bannog.  First week pay laeng, kasla one month metten.” Translation from Ilocano: “I feel the tiredness. It’s just first week, but it feels like it’s been one month.” Personally, I don’t know Joy (male, yes), also an Ilocano. I don’t know how old he is, but I know I am 82 (Sept 17). I am a nonstop writer from home (WFH) digital author, editor, and desktop publisher. This New Year, he says he is getting tired easily whatever he is doing, farming and/or gardening. I also get tired writing & editing, rewriting & re-editing so many times, but I never get mentally drained because I’m dedicating it all to the Filipino people, especially the farmers & their leaders.

(“Tired” from vecteezy.com)

And why am I writing about a cultivator getting tired? First, note my comment to Joy’s Facebook sharing:

My recommendation: Farming without work. Google for “Ruth Stout”

I don’t know him personally, but being tireless Facebook sharers both, I know Joy is with PhilRice Isabela. Administrator, agriculturist and gardener, whatever. He needs Ruth Stout.

Ruth Stout is/was the American lady who wrote the book “Gardening Without Work” first published in 1961. I am an agriculturist; I had just graduated from UP Los Baños in1965 when, being a wide reader, I discovered Ms Ruth’s book in the open shelves of the library of UPLB. I feel in love with it because she was mulching to grow her food and not using chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Mulching is as natural as can be – you garden with mulch, grow healthy crops.

Using natural materials, even if you feel tired gardening, you will be happy!

Borrowing from Ruth Stout now, let me call all the relentless blogging I have been doing since 2000 “Writing Without Work.” I have been cultivating my manual (typewriter) creativity since 1975, my digital creativity since 1985. I have since dedicated my writing to the Filipino farmers.

I am a son of Ilocano farmer Dionisio who I don’t remember did complain about how much or how less farming rewarded farmers. He could afford it, so he was into chemical agriculture (CA). Not knowing any better then, I was happily spraying those weeds with 2,4-D, even soaking their leaves wet! (When I came across Ruth Stout in 1965, I banned CA from my vocabulary.)

How about “Farming Without Work,” Joy? If you want to lessen your manual farming, use your head!

PhilRice has 7 branch stations from Ilocos Norte in Luzon to Cotabato in Mindanao – PhilRice Batac, PhilRice Isabela, PhilRice Los Baños, PhilRice Bicol, PhilRice Negros,  PhilRice Agusan, PhilRice Midsayap – but none of them has reported doing research on reducing manual labor in rice farming.

Why not PhilRice researching on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with organic methods? Asking for a friend! With organic, you decrease your costs much & remove your health hazards – and increase your returns much!

I have my own system of farming without work, but I will skip that this time.@517 

 

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