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FARMING GOD'S WAY

Rutendo Bereza
Matinyarare was born in Zimbabwe but he lives in
South Africa.
He studied marketing and project management, but
now works as a full time Afrikan social engineer. His
life's creed is captured in his words:
"As a man I seek to die having fulfilled my destiny to
humanity, not having consumed much.”

crete or tar, humans struggling to it since February.
control them? They can crack the
foundations and walls of buildings Observation Science
within a very short period of build- I think we could be building to a sci-
ings being neglected. How come entific observation, hypothesis and
they can be this robust without hu- conclusion here. Even edible crops
enerally we are told that man intervention or being affected (like their wild plant cousins) can
our climate is changing by climate change like edible crops grow naturally and multiply fruitful-
and our food crops are are? ly without fertilizer, herbicide, soil
Gunable to cope with tillage, irrigation, protection from
the climate changes. For this reason Vegetables Growing Wild winter, human science or interven-
it is punted that human [scientific] As if nature was responding to my tion. It would seem nature adapts
intervention is required to create curiosity. Walking along a small very well to climate changes.
hybrids and GMO seeds to adapt stream in a bush near my neighbor-
to the climate change and increase hood earlier this year. I came across Hybrids Are Weak
agricultural yields for our growing a vegetable and delicacy we call It actually looks like the hybrids and
population. Tsunga in Zimbabwe and one South GMOs they are imposing on us,
Africans call m’china growing wild which require herbicides, fertilizers,
It is further asserted that crop and abundantly on the sides of the chemicals and human intervention
production has become a science, river bank. to grow effectively. Are actually
requiring constant human interven- Here is a delicate vegetable growing weaker, less adaptive versions of the
tion and synthetic products to assist lushly in the wild without cultiva- OPV [Natural/Open Variety] crops
nature to produce and flourish. This tion, irrigation, fertilizer, pesticide, which can grow in the harsh wild.
is the conventional and prevailing herbicide, manure or any human
wisdom of our time. Something intervention in a water scarce coun- Why GMOs?
referred to as best practice insight. try like South Africa. How does one So why are they selling us GMOs
explain this? We are three months and Hybrids? To weaken our food
What About Weeds into winter and the last rains we had seed genetics to make them more
For a moment I believed this were in April but this veg is growing reliant on human intervention and
contemporary perspective. Until I beautifully and reproducing in the bio-chemical products?
started wondering: Why is it that wild.
weeds and other wild plants contin- To add to that most GMOs can’t
ue to grow in this changing climate Naturally I picked the crop and reproduce because of GERT [Ge-
without cultivation, ground prepara- cooked it. It tasted amazing but netic Use Restriction Technology]
tion, pesticides, fertilizers, irrigation more importantly it detoxed my which bio-chemical companies use
or human intervention? bowel better than any other veg I to protect their patented seeds.
have eaten before. Now I no longer
How is it that these weeds and go and buy muriwo/morogo in
grasses can grow even out of con- town, I just go to the bush and pick

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