Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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2008-7 and 8 Taming and Abundance

Letter No. 8 The Taming

back approach and listing day for me calmer!
Day length decreased severely and the working time is shorter.
The 2008 season will stretch until frost with our strawberries, yet and again! But have you seen each week, they are different!
There will be a few more apples, grapes, corn, still a few other varieties of melon, a few figs, .... and then here. For some time now, I'm in preparation for the 2009 season. Which did not improve too much market invent other tricks to get the job done better, more efficient, etc. .... You
balances the 2008 season, assessments and forecasts of the 2009 season. You can participate in the management group with which we establish the short-, medium-and long-term contract price and the 2009 and its composition. This group meets 2-3 times between November and late December. You're invited, you advertise.
Two major difficulties are highlighted in this season: the technical and manpower. The technique
advance. Each season is a little better! Much remains to be done, but the means are at my fingertips. It must, season after season, place markers, and gradually tame the land and its culture.
The first job of a farmer is observation. It takes time unheard of for all its data and use them and sawing (Ohlàlà I do not know how it is written and the computer gives no indication !) I am well supported by Jean-Luc Petit, my technician arbo-bio. I must bone up again and again these cycles of disease and parasites to understand, in the moment, the right thing. At school (farming) I have learned everything by heart and often but when it comes to applying it in real time! So there ..... such, must be learned. In short the technique, with a little enthusiasm and motivation, that's okay. But
labor, then I'm very pessimistic. But hey if the technique increases, labor is a little lower, yes. But the time for harvesting strawberries is not compressible.
This year I was fortunate be accompanied by my really good employee, Stephanie. She agreed to return next season if it is available. In agriculture, everything was an infinite time! And no luck, is what is the most expensive labor! Approximately 50% of your contract goes to the post. So you think when it comes to the increase! It will be widely released for discussion at Management Group. This year, I carefully noted my work time. And I'm still a little surprised! There are days when I beat all the records and I want no account distributions! This is my share of volunteer work!
crops are doing well. The deduction is soon empty and I'm afraid of running out for planting strawberries in three weeks. Anyway since the last storm, I water less. But with temperatures that have risen to the bottom, it will take me to be vigilant.
I opted for the maximum value of each crop and especially those who are less.
I refer in particular fisheries, some fisheries that I have harvested after the frost has passed, after the aphids are overfed. I consider my gardens as an extension of my home garden and I take the crops as if they were for the family. It is therefore possible that the quality is lower. I picked peaches with a side damaged, cracked tomatoes, etc. .... I know some of you do not like it. I wish from the bottom of each crop have me on top! But you know it's not quite as often. So I made the choice that you know what our cultures give us time to look like! sometimes truly beautiful and others totally detestable. So forgive this non-perfect! It is my way to connect you to what the earth gives us.
A creation operation, I had planted 500 seedlings of table grapes. The whole had burst. In 2006, I started with three lines each year. This season, we had be the first clusters. But Mr. Downy got involved and my clusters are all ugly and scattered. Difficult for me not to share it with you. Again it is not easy to exactly when to intervene when you have so many different cultures. It will come and you'll see it happen! Because I believe and I know that sooner or later, work, courage and love are rewarded. So be lenient with those crops that do not pay mine !!!!!
Ah! Welcome back everyone, especially children.


letter No. 7 ABUNDANCE

Here is many days I need you tell. But only now do I take the time.
I chose the title because it causes plenty of questions.
But first she pleased! Me first! As a reward, a gift.
But at what price! I would like to thank all those who make this possible in his daily adventures. I mean the workshop participants, harvesting watermelons, strawberries, put a lump of strawberry, etc. ... and those who are involved day after day, the distrib, storage of watermelons, the car repairs, etc. .... Both
poor harvests leaves us in frustration, both crops at the height of the work undertaken, I request a different organization and means biggest and unfortunately I did not have them considered quite extensively in my forecast.
So it's not easy! Physically and materially. My little fourgeonnette largely run out of steam and cracks everywhere, every distro becomes an obstacle course. It is imperative to find bigger, beefier while in funding acceptable. To view ..... it takes a little longer ...
And physically I am at my limits. Since three weeks I save the furniture and go to urgentissime: watering and harvesting. Everything else is on hold and I will pay later. But despite that I'm in a state of fatigue intense and I expect every morning to do more to get up. Therefore I resign myself to further reduce the amount of urgentissime! While my calls have been heard but a fairly limited and insufficient for me to calm my fatigue. And more heat is tough and the body is much to regulate.
All these parameters will be taken into account by the management group (which you can participate, call you) for the 2009 season. But in the meantime we must keep.
The gardens are brave this heat wave. Irrigation water can be absorbed only when temperatures are around 28 ° c. My installations are proven. On Rondin site where there's gardening, apple and pear cups (planted in the creation in 2003), the channel has been cut a week and I'm over the river with. The most powerful engine left, chained to a tree on site is operated every day and no restrictions! (Just go and start it!). But it did not prevent the mites from attacking here and there the beds, but good productions take: tomatoes, melons, Galia, tomatillos, corn is in bloom ..... melons guard prepare : Spain, the Canary, ball gold, antibes, etc. .... The Herbs also benefit ...... with Stephanie, when they were trampled harvest! On the site of
Peissonnel must juggle. I have installed a solenoid valve controlled by a timer, but it does not work as I want, I'm wasting water. We must find more effective solutions. I water by industries. We must, again, I floss there to operate the valves and watch it work. Pumping from the lake has had problems for a week and I found no time to fix it. But now whew, I increased the diameter of the hose pump and it works great. Simply start up when my tank is full it stops everything alone.
Strawberries are well watered but suffer from the heat. The watermelons pavannent and weight they are laughing and they cause headaches for the transportation and distribution. They are malignant! I love them so much I can not get them ignored, but they are the major cause of the condition of the car, my back and my fatigue. Peach trees suffer too much, I did not even blow it all washed down with gel that has robbed us of the harvest, I forget and am still a little angry, even if they gave us some delicious peaches. Aphids settle down with this hot.
The new planting apple trees magnificent and I try to give him his share of water as best I can. The new planting apricot is lovely but a bit rather weak, it will load into compost. And then the rest I do as I can.
fences work well when I get to spend the weedeater though. There he would do it again ... There's one that I have not had time to ask. That of young plantations and plum line greengage.
Apples / pears come in very small quantities because there are few trees and they are still small. This year, I have managed to keep codling moth (the worm) so far. But then I surrendered. You'll still have apples visitées.J 't still plenty to say, but the sheet is too small! Damn

Sunday, June 29, 2008

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2008-6 2008-5

PATIENCE

Since birth, we learn patience. In the last letter I announced peaches, tomatoes and melons! And here they are making the most appearances shy. Do not worry, they arrive. Tomatoes and melons in quantity (well it seems) peaches rescued from freezing, but I can add aphids.

Misery misery! The aphids, small animal black, green, gray, migrant or not, who loves what I grow! Especially peach and apple trees. He told us they mean excess Nitrogen .... and it suits me well to know if I do not know what to do! Still, they keep me awake (so to speak) from a certain time. Despite my attempts, which have given success on apples, the buggers do not decide to migrate, or die in any case to let live my peaches, then some of my peaches. You may say "so what? "And Ben and then they are so greedy (first it was the blacks who migrated, now that the greens are migrating ever) they impede the development of leaves and buds and leaves as is that nourish the fruits ..... fruits do not grow not. So far it suits me not at all.
means that I used:
1) treatments with calcined clay, which covers all of a white film, which is a mineral barrier, thus not affecting the auxiliary.
2) local treatment (there are only where aphids = treatment knapsack sprayer) at biophytoz (organic insecticide rotenone Vidauban made by home euphytor) that kills all lice and auxiliaries. I practice this treatment as a last places in desperation to save ....
and 3) treatment prev b2, bio-organic fertilizer loaded with boron, one of whose components terpene is orange which has an action plant on soft-bodied insects, but if dosed too can cause burns on the leaves (phytotoxicity) and is the coup de grace, and finally for the wallets in all cases (24 € HT / l and 5l requires more per hectare = 50 to 80 € per treatment for our sins). Oh, it smells really good! It should be noted that treatments against insects are as late as possible in the evening.
Well here is not won! Aphids Isabella finally its peach, take for example: they are resisting and I can tell you they do it well. The question is like the freezing, how far I go??
fortunately since the cessation of rains strawberries are so beautiful, large, and boooooonnes.

Thank you for this gift. A delight to the harvest with Stephanie, who is to reap the most beautiful. And this, I admit, sometimes it ends up in our mouths in wonderment.
You've probably noticed the typicality of each variety and vintage. Otherwise, ask me .... I'll tell you.
Wet weather played me the cure! Mr. mildew teased our first small harvest of grapes and vines in our juice! But also our friends of all colors as expected, I say, tomatoes. And then suddenly it was oëdium and then ..... so I did the best I could and obviously I'm disappointed can. Buddies "wine" have largely turbine in their vineyards. The treaty did very well, they were well-protected, with their systemic products (conveyed by the sap). Bio by cons are subject to leaching, even if they use a wetting terpene-based Pine, other uses for that matter. Once the vines have spots ..... and mine too ...... and of course some damage on clusters. But since it's a good year of office and on the vine juice I had no time of débourgeonner, we will harvest.
The melons are swollen and about to honor us.

Watermelons explode, at least not yet, but are everywhere ...... and I am stash at home 13 to 17h and makes you the letter. The heat is on and the pace has changed again. I try to be in my garden before dawn and sometimes I would stay even for a little shot in sleep. But think of the dodger, I'm going! It is so beautiful sunrise and the sun (except midges) in the gardens. Now I fear the coup de grace on tomatoes.
And with all this rain, there is not only crops and nature that have feasted, but all these plants growing right next to our crops. And since we do not attach their attentions, they willingly put themselves in their places. But I found them Fabrice painstakingly told to go into the highways, after the flower beds, where it briefly not threaten our crops, he wielded the pickaxe for 10 days and I would have liked more but the budget does not allow it. Now we must Magner pump and pipe, especially since our beloved culture have been well equipped by nature and they are not accustomed too! We must run the pumps valves, pumps reserves ! It is not easy! But you're right is not holiday !!!!!!
I remind you Restores The Day, Saturday, July 5.
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Friday, June 27, 2008

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Art and Social Action: everything left to say, everything remained to be done ...


Founded in 2004 by Coeur d'Hérault Malena Merlo, ARATOUSAGES is an association Act 1901 which aims to educate our society about the importance of the role of art in social action and education. Art has a place to win in these areas. This is not to bring culture to people, but to bring out in them the desire of culture through artistic practice.

ARATOUSAGES The action is built around a pedagogy of creation through artistic support: including that of painting. This pedagogy is based on the principle that every human being has creative potential and even unsatisfied, it accompanies it throughout his life. Anyone, regardless of age and condition, is able to deploy on its own resources, abilities, desires and its history. Through this approach

ARATOUSAGES art entant claims that language, given the ubiquity of art became subject to consumption. Art is language support for discovery, fun, self exploration, but also our relation to others.

The association project ARATOUSAGES this center particularly around the audience aged, the intergenerational assistance to caregivers.








painting workshops have been created by Malena Merlo since 1994 in various institutions for the elderly, first in Madrid, Spain (see History ) and more recently in the Herault. Most of these workshops included in the institutional design of various structures were open to the outside through exhibitions.





The headquarters of the association since 2006 to install Lodève ARATOUSAGES intends to continue to develop projects in conjunction with the public aged dependent and in isolation.



Aratousages participated and turned to the county "Ageing Well in the Hérault" by hosting the workshop "Gestures and colors" , an awareness workshop "Benefits of expression artistic " Pégairolles to the Escalette in June 2008, renewed in October 2008 to St. Maurice Navacelles .

Also under "Ageing well in the Hérault" , ARATOUSAGES participate in 2008 project " Alzheimer talk to me in art" at the initiative of LINC Country Lunel. This project aims to perform work to raise awareness among people (families and carers) affected by Alzheimer's disease.

How to paint a support exploration of other forms of communication, how can she help change the look at the person with dementia ... These are issues discussed and shared in the collective experience and intimate as well.

See the article "Alzheimer talk to me in art" ... In 2009

Aratousages offers innovative adventure "Colors in Motion" , intergenerational project initiated by the Click Agreement entered into Lodève part "Ageing well in the Hérault" , prevention with a cultural medium.

See the article "Color in Motion" ...



Thursday, May 29, 2008

Installation Number For Nero 6

Oh wait the month of May!

Ah May!




If I want the month of May, physically and morally, it is surely won! phew we are 29! but I'm not at my sentences even if the end of the tunnel approach. I released since Saturday, when suddenly it's slower advance! (I am 8 am instead of 12, 7 / 7). But it was worth it: my gardens are beautiful and I almost morale. But I am broken. It's the back that said stop! And suddenly it's even more difficult, but every morning I thank you can start my day.
Many thanks to those who were able to amapiens free to participate in workshops. Thanks to them the boat does not sink! You can point out and organize a workshop: weeding, maintenance of flower beds of strawberries, poses sprinklers in the apple trees, electric fences, etc. .... just just a little nudge to stay afloat.

Ah May! What weather! Until this week, it was pretty good, except that with this humidity, strawberries are low quality and there so must sort that puts a lot of time to fill a tray and what remains in the path is not for you enjoy. But the plantings are made in good conditions and times were very satisfactory!

this terrible wind up upside down, turning more! First a bit of a greenhouse is collapsed


plantations and then on Friday (380 tomatoes), despite the wind shield that I put in place, was largely damaged, be repeated.


For melons, emergency, under the gusts, we conducted protection (nonwoven). It's heavy, we have tightened our belts and presto! Mission accomplished: melons should hold.


And tonight, two restless dreams, I heard a rainstorm, I heard thunder and hard ..... I saw my harvest compromised the day, the greenhouse collapsed because I did not have time to fix it since the wind on Tuesday and then it was well down there that we should raise this morning !!!!! all these treatments and then I did yesterday afternoon .... ..... and then washed everything that I did not do these wild boars that have ........... broke a small cerisiser that finally, after so many seasons had two cherries ........ these three parcels that have not yet ......... and that fences fertilizer I still put in baby apple .......... and all this grass that I have not yet overcome all these ......... and flat bands which are filled with strawberry runners ..... ......... .......... and it is in these moments that it wilt! It's over, I can not assess the evidence without thinking!

And then the day pointed! Then I woke up and it rained 15 mm, it is not the end of the world, I hope the damage is acceptable and that the day will be good. But the coup instead of going as soon as my breakfast swallowed (on my deck, along with doves and snails: my pleasure), I turned on my computer. Need to tell you that I hold out, but everything that is not how I wish that every day and I have to choose what is urgent and that I often tell myself that it was not! But I could not know and that .......
need to tell you that at the same time, it's so beautiful! And every day I discover, learn, grow ....... and you're there, with patience and kindness. And even if we not change the world, we did our part and together.

month of June will land with its warmth and boring here, will collapse the luxuriance bouffeuses and spiders will destroy my tomatoes! This year I planned a system to compensate for the lack of dew: a light sprinkling a few minutes to drive at sunrise. "Indeed dew energy would I go start the engine before sunrise! I hope so.
month of June brings other products in your basket desperately packed fresh and aromatic: the first peaches (which rigolées gel, survivors), greenhouse tomatoes (including the big lazy bees do not pollinate the Madagascan price of the hive: 57 €) and perhaps the first melons. Life
rhythmic with his fears and desires, but so closely linked to climatic element. Oh
this year is even more difficult for all arbo. I mean no crops destroyed by hail after they freeze. I think of them.

Saturday, on France Inter, in issuing Coffe, the arbo Alsace, Frederick, with whom I visited in late April, is invited. Not to be missed.

Kisses,

isabelle.