“Before my time in Hawaii, I had met Jim, a New Zealand organic farmer, who played classical music to his vegetables and told me they thrived because of that. He’d planted another greenhouse at the same time with other beans as a control, but they didn’t grow as well; though the conditions – water, diffused light, and feeding were the same. Meeting Jim was a memorable encounter as he spoke about the Findhorn Community in northern Scotland, which had bountiful gardens because of the gardeners’ cooperation with nature.”

Written by Helen Rubin.

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