A Farming Myth …

[Rsquared]

Dave.....you really do amaze me!

I have followed many of your threads, and I have come to the conclusion that you are sicker than me.

I do a little research.......but you my friend are hands down the best when it comes to research......an enquiring mind to boot.

Cheers.

[Rsquared]

@ Jim...hope your wife gets well soon, Valentine is a myth created by money hungry BS artists.

Just tell your better half that you love her 365 days a year, and you don't need one day to prove it with commercialism.

[jamescollister]

@ Jim...hope your wife gets well soon, Valentine is a myth created by money hungry BS artists.

Just tell your better half that you love her 365 days a year, and you don't need one day to prove it with commercialism.

Lots of luck on that one, she has 2 birthdays one when she was born and one when the birth was registered. 3 wedding anniversaries registry office, Buddha blessing and the OZ wedding.

Her next birthday I have promised her the latest I phone 26 July.

Got to keep her sweet as she is the boss and pays me 10,000 a week for being a handsome man.

Not going to take her to a optician in the near future. Jim

[Mosha]

Valentines day I think. Lucky the wife's not well as I forgot. She has just been lying in bed for a few days and didn't remember. Jim

Jim, score heaps of brownie points. Sidle up to her a repeat the words ... sùk sân wan Walentive

Or check out the prettiest Mod you will ever see ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zhgSyb6SodA

I got a slap. I guess inserting bum bum was wrong.

[David48]

Dave.....you really do amaze me!

I have followed many of your threads, and I have come to the conclusion that you are sicker than me.

I do a little research.......but you my friend are hands down the best when it comes to research......an enquiring mind to boot.

Cheers.

Just comes naturally to me. I was the chief researcher for a Property Firm while I earning my stripes as a Property Valuer and things just 'stick' in my mind.

But that talent does have a down side ... I am absolutely crap at language ... seriously!

The reason that I remember that clip above is that when I lived in Thailand for a few months last year or the year before, my lady would shuffle off to her work everyday and left an idle inquiring mind at home.

She was making all the compromises language wise, so I decided to try and teach myself a little Thai ... failed miserably ...

An example of which was that it took me a few hours just to nail the first 30 secs of that video.

Oh ... the other reason that I remember that clip ... she is very easy on the eye ...

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[David48]

@ Jim...hope your wife gets well soon, Valentine is a myth created by money hungry BS artists.

Just tell your better half that you love her 365 days a year, and you don't need one day to prove it with commercialism.

Got to keep her sweet as she is the boss and pays me 10,000 a week for being a handsome man.

Not going to take her to a optician in the near future. Jim

Note to self ... business opportunity.

Discover where Jim lives and open an optometry shop ...

[David48]

One last one ...

As you might know, I just had 2 1/2 months on the gf's Parents Fish Farm and so much media was generated from that.

But, at the moment there are many excellent 'visual' threads around at the moment with shaggy1969, Dancealot to name a few, I don't wish to compete with those nice guys.

This is one from a future fish farm thread ... dealing with a pest fish called a Doctor Fish

Or one about the transport options at your Farm - or - How do your kids get to School?

We went to a Prawn/Shrimp Hatchery ... a completely different experience.

On the ride home I interviewed Mod about the cost, transport issues, where the Prawn eggs are sourced etc

Big farm machinery - Small Farm machinery

Weed control

Fish Kills - when it goes 'belly up' - literally

Catfish - making their food

Farm Dogs

... and we haven’t even done any fish or prawn catches yet !

But, for the moment, my energies are in my thread entitled Plane Spotting - the quiz in the Travel Forum.

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[wolfmanjack]

Grimleybob, posted be me 6 years ago:

"Moo Pha (wild boars): We often get the opportunity to eat 100% moo pha from the forest, 2 metres behind our house. A couple of locals shoot and trap them quite regularly, despite the fact that my only close neighbour is the forest rangers station! My wife did previously try her hand at breeding and growing moo pha while I was occupied by my cattle. These were around 80% pure moo pha (as are normally farmed). She looked after them for nearly one year; had around 25 at peak. Waste of time! Other Thais around here who have tried agree. Fatten them like domestic pigs (moo baan) and customers complain the meat is, funny enough, just like moo baan (and why then should they fork out extra money?). Feed them naturally and the (live-pig buying) customer complains they are too thin. They are wild muscular animals in the wild that don't get the opportunity to deposit much fat!

I expect you could make a go of it if you fed/managed them naturally, slaughtered & butchered them, and marketed the meat in the cities (where the meat commands a much higher value). Build strong walls extending under the ground should anyone wish to try farming moo pha - they are true escape-artists who just love your neighbours crops!"

My MIL did okay raising these black pigs. She kept them in a cage and fed them banana trees which she got for free from the side of the road.

[lungmi]

I’ll kick it off with this …

On a positive note there are the health benefits of a small Farm holding.

The Farm style where you have some space around you, a large vege patch and maybe a pond for some fish and more then one fruit tree.

Surely the heath benefit of living on a ‘Hobby Farm’ outweighs any argument that is put that the ‘Farm’ is profitable.

Hopefully you are exercising more working the small Farm holding, eating your own produce … a general sense of well-being.

Maybe you think … Farm profit …

But you will live to a ripe old age to enjoy the fruits of your labour.

Your story to tell …

I agree. 100%. With my money from Germany we bought 3 rai of forgotten farmland at a high price (1,4 million baht.) We invested 600 000 baht for dwells and pumps. My mother in law is working hard, my brother in law made a chicken farm. I planted potatoes (a joke). After 3 months my family can sell now veggies and herbs for about 500 Baht a day (no chemicals used), the mango and longan season has to wait, we cut a lot of old trees and branches.

The soil is superb, centuries ago there was a river, now he stays 200 meters down (this is why we have water everytime with strong pumps.

Funny is, the Bangkok Bank offers us credit for more development. My wife (account degree) says no: No debt, honest work because Nature pays back better.

Edited February 24, 2013 by lungmi