Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth by Eric Herm

Author:Eric Herm
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9831315-0-2
Publisher: Dreamriver Press

Significance of Weeds

With eyes wide open upon my return to the farm, I noticed weeds were more widespread than ever before. Not just careless weeds and tumbleweeds, but several species I’d never noticed before reared their heads as summer crops progressed. This was attributed to various reasons, including less intensive cultivation, hay trucks spreading weed seed, and land placed in CRP (Conservation Resource Program) grass spreading more weeds. No doubt these didn’t help, but weeds seemed to pop up where no other fields or major roads bordered. Books were my main means of discovering why weeds thrived.

Ehrenfried E. Pfeifer wrote in Weeds and What They Tell that:

Weeds are specialists. Having learned something in the battle for survival they will survive under circumstances where our cultivated plants, softened through centuries of protection and breeding, cannot stand up against nature’s caprices. Weeds resist conditions which cultivated plants cannot resist, such as drought, acidity of soil, lack of humus, mineral deficiencies, as well as one-sidedness of minerals. They are witness of man’s failure to master the soil, and they grow abundantly whenever man has missed the train—they only indicate our errors and nature’s corrections.

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