Porter Goss, Head of CIA, is an organic farmer. In a bit of agricultural tongue-in-cheek, he complains about �pest training� in a recent interview with Time Magazine. Perhaps the answer to the US problem with �pests� lies in the spade, rather than the sword?
(TIME) YOU'RE INTO ORGANIC GARDENING. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
(Porter Goss) Mrs. Goss got a little horrified after she started reading the labels on some of the processed foods. We have a farm that [uses] no pesticides, no hormones, no additives--just compost and hard work. And we grow natural. I must say it's very rewarding to see. But the problem is, the critters take half of every plant. They're hard to sell. We haven't trained the critters yet which ones are theirs.
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The Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy properties are located in the heart of Upstate New York's Finger Lakes region and overlook scenic Cayuga Lake. Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy, situated in the Canoga Creek watershed, includes many acres of the Canoga Marsh. Canoga, or "Ga-no-geh" as the native Cayuga people called it, means "place of the sweet water," and has long been known as a place of abundant fish and fowl. Canoga Creek Farm and Conservancy is a family farm operation focused on sustainability through the celebration and preservation of rural lifestyles and the conservation of agrobiodiversity and natural resources.
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Conservation farming puts first things first by attending to the needs of the soil—by seeing to it that the starting-off place, the base, is put into sound health and kept that way. Any other approach, no matter what it may be, always has and always must lead eventually to agricultural disaster.
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