Backyard Potterer’s diary. January
Text and illustration:Tiit Kändler
Translation: Liis
Organic pig, with schnitzel au naturel
About natural and organic
In the Soviet days every eating place had a dish like “Schnitzel, pork, natural” prominently displayed on the menu. One conclusion – not unnatural – would be that then all other schnitzels, pork chops and minced meats were unnatural, that is, not from nature but somehow artificially made.
Now there is ever more talk about “organic” agriculture and “organic”. So is one then to believe that all other food is inorganic - made from stones, water and clay like a respectable house?
And snow: it is natural and inorganic. So, what about it – should the harvest of snow be subsidised by Government as an organic agricultural product? But, on the other hand, it is inorganic too, and so goes in the same category as grindstones, arsenic and spring wire coils.
Collared
The Estonian Environmental Information Centre has just informed us that on New Year’s Eve a wild boar was collared in Estonia for the first time in the Baltic countries. Something to go along with, the Backyard Potterer thought, but as no Baltic wild boar were in sight in the yard he went out and collared the neighbour’s leashed German Shepherd instead whereupon it promptly sank its teeth into his neck. Take care with whom you collar if you want to keep your neck safe.
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