Agriculture committee  I'll explain more about low external inputs and things we've learned mainly from third-world countries by example. We don't use a tractor, and we lower petroleum input to almost nothing. It's very much more labour-intensive. And everything on the farm tends to have a dual purpose.

Agriculture committee  I said that we were doing low external input agriculture, and by that, we've been actually going the other way and looking at farming techniques in Africa and Central America, in countries that out of necessity have to do more with less. We've actually had a number of successes with techniques that we've developed from that system of agriculture.

Agriculture committee  Good morning. In October of 2009 my wife and I bought a small farm in the Martock area, just outside of Windsor here. We had been planning since early 2007 what we wanted to do. We definitely wanted a small-scale operation. In looking at different agro-ecological models, we tended to prefer a lower external input agricultural model.