> on top of that i am practicing "the naturel way of farming "( no tilling,
> fertilising, weeding , treatment of diseases or pruning ) that makes
> domestics plants looks and taste wild>>
>
>Would you please explain what is a no tilling, natural way of farming?


a big question. "naturel way of farming" have been demonstrated for 60 years
by Masanobu Fukuoka, a japanese farmer who have been a plant pathologist in
his youth.
He wrote "one staw revolution" after many years of working in his corner,
followed by a more in depth explanation of what naturel way of farming is
about in the more recent book: <The naturel way of farming, theorie and
practice of green philosophie>. Both books are out of print in the english
occidental world but are available in India where masanobu got most of his
followers (that we know, we met few...)
Ingrid wrote a booklet of introduction to Naturel way of farming available
from us for cdn$ 3.50 plus postage.
Masanobu wrote an other book :< Road back to nature >that is available,
where he explains his view on  the state of a world in the process of
desertification ,  the reasons how it happens thru history , and what we
need to do to reverse it.
in brief , masanobu was a scientist unconfortable with  the advices that he
had to give to farmers, unhappy and without a purpose when he felt very
deeply inside himself a voice telling him :You can't do better than Nature.
following that revelation he quit his job and went back to his father farm
to put into practice, for the next 60 years , this insight.
So he didn't do what every reasonable farmer have been made to believe ,we
should do and tried to work in harmony with what his land wanted to do.
The most important starting point being to stop tilling , every thing else
falling into place with the basic attitude of not wanting to" inprove upon
nature"
his demonstration is very remarkable,  he have been able to grow for 50
years rice and barley in the same field with only sowing and harvesting by
hand as intervention, producing higher and higher yield ,year after year. to
the point where he got the highest yield of japan.
he planted an orchard with vegetables grown underneath following the 5
principles.
we met masanobu in a very miraculous way in India, 4 years ago ( masanobu
and us happens to be inexpectably in Bombay the 2 same days) after a 2
months tour of naturel way of farming farms ( that we didn't expect  at all
to enconter in India)
Masanobu have been missunderstood by the occidental world ( people
practicing the naturel way of farming are very few) but striked a chord in
more spiritually oriented country like india.
his philosophie stems out the old shinto and zen approach.
Bill mollisson , the creator of permaculture ,( with his scientific mind
set, ) copied  many of the "technics'"  practiced  by masanobu (who went
radically  away from the analytical mind.) and seems on the outside to
promote the same farming practice, while in reality they have a radically
opposite attitude( my opinion).
just the begining of an answer!
jean-claude

><<you forgot about saps (mapples is abondant here but not so  producing
than
> in the east, and when i cut a tree in the spring i harvest the juice)>>
>
>Do you eat the sap raw?
>
>Thanks
>
>Love
>Sandy