A Little Lesson in Farming

I grew up with my dad farming walnuts, peaches, and rice in the traditional way, and when I was about 15 he purchased the farm that we live on and decided to farm it organically. I think it's interesting to note the differences in how they handle the different problems, like weeds for example. On a traditional farm you would spray the weeds with a chemical to kill them, but that just won't do when you have an organic crop.

So to handle the weeds on our organic farm they burn them. It's really quite interesting to watch, and when Brendon saw it being done for the first time yesterday morning he ran out there with the camera.

The flame looks enormous in real life, and it just eats up the weeds like candy and then dies out immediately after. It burns too hot and fast to be of any damage to the trees.

Also notable fire fun is burning rice fields after harvest.