At the farm.

Hi everybody,it's Ben. A few days ago my mom, my sister, and I went to Farmer Jim's farm and got a grand tour of the ten acres in back were he grows his organic food that he sells to people. There is everything from lettuce to okra, if you looked closely there were about 7 small compost piles. Farmer Jim uses no pesticides to his crops. When he has to get rid of vermin he kills them then buries them back in their home. He does that because it returns the carbon to the earth. He doesn't use pesticides because it puts poison in the food chain. When we are done with our compos,t we give it to Farmer Jim to give back to him because he gives to us.

 This is a photo of a gopher tunnel where Farmer Jim put a trap.  You can see the kale missing from above the tunnel where the gopher grabbed it from below.