TP Humor, Poems, Prose & Wit

[freeztar]

Sweet!

[erich]

The poor farmer grows weeds
The fair farmer grows crops
The Good farmer grows Soil

The Poor farmer quote came from "Gardening at the Dragon's Gate" by Wendy Johnson
She said it was a Japanese folk saying

On the Biochar list, some folks started doing limerick riffs off it;

There was a poor farmer grew weeds
Till biochar men of good deeds
Said fair farmers grow crops
But good farmers are tops
They put black stuff in t'soil with their seeds

not a very good one but a limerick if you want it
Peter Read


There once were three farmers of Leeds
The poorest grew nothing but weeds
Another grew crops,
But the man who was tops
Grew his soil with char, then sowed seeds.

TJ


There once was a man from Bombay
Who tried to grow stuff in the clay.
He tried Biochar,
'Twas better by far!
"For me, this will be, the new way."

Kevin

[erich]

Prof Ian Lowe's Poem to Biochar
Submitted by thayer on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 12:25
Date:
Wed, 07/15/2009
Contributor:
Thayer Tomlinson

Taken from Dr. Lowe's address to the 1st Asia-Pacific Biochar Conference, Gold Coast, May 2009.


1. Here’s a summary of my talk
In case you slept or took a walk
We know our civilisation’s through
If we don’t cut back on CO2.

2. It won’t matter how we toil
If we don’t put carbon in our soil
And so the future’s shining star
Yes, you’ve guessed it, Biochar!

3. I’ll just remind you, climate changes
Threaten clear and present dangers
We know we have no future here
Unless we fix the atmosphere.

4. Clean energy will have a role
But fixing carbon is out goal
No matter who or where you are
Let’s raise a glass to Biochar!


Prof Ian Lowe's Poem to Biochar | International Biochar Initiative