SUSTAINABLE FARMING

SELF SUSTAINING. Those words meant nothing initially to my farm manager when i got him to work there. During my last visit a week ago, he was using it more in his talks with me.
What do we mean?
We cultivate the growing of earthworms, which are feeds for the chickens, hito, and ducks. The compost fertilizers they produce are meant for fertilizing the farm lands, including the coconuts, the rice and corn, and all the forages that abound and are being planted for future use. The grasses and legumes are meant to be feeds for the goats and the pigs.
Their manures goes back to the earthworms as we continue to increase the earthworm beds.
The chickens when sold as dressed, would produce much innards that we would cook and have the pigs and the hito eat.
The pigs' manure would also be used for the earthworms, and fertilize the fishpond next to the pens too, where the hitos thrive. The ducks' manure goes into the pond as well, providing for algae and other microorganisms that the ducks feed on. It fertilizes the kangkongs and duckweeds too, that goes to the pigs for feeds.
The goats manure fertilizes the earth where they are, the chicken feces too on the grasses where they now graze and feed. We are now practising EM(essential microbes) or what others would call IMO, and finding it effective for the animals and the produce. We use Microbial Fertilizers for our corn and rice.
With all these happening who needs chemical fertilizers and pesticides?

The day we have fully succeeded in doing sustainable organic and natural farming I am going to be sporting a big big grin.