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We are farmers farming as umrit (www.umrit.org). We are proud stewards of the land that has been home to human beings for millenniums and growing foods.

As farmers, our practices of utilizing natural materials, especially tree biomass in various ways have been of concern to many individuals and bodies. We have made hügelkultur beds, spread wood chips as mulch, placed logs around the farm as habitat, to improve microbial life in the soil and growability of foods, to be naturally nutritious and health promoting.

We would like to assure concerned parties, our practices are natural and we are committed to manage and maintain the land and the practices as a part. For any possibility or degree of failure, our practices will leave behind benefits rather than harm, as many benefits will be realized for longer time. We believe for any degree of harm that may arise from our practices, will be within reach of nature to mitigate it in a very short time, if it comes to be a need. As stewards our interest is to pass on the land in much better state than what we inherited, so as to be pleasant and advantageous experience.

Our practices, well within our management capability, are facing actions of regulatory reversal. The raised concerns are degradation of land, soil, hazard and risk to the community. We believe a monitoring approach would be far better solution to learn and understand the impacts of it, to address the concerns.

As farmers, we believe utilizing synthetics have elevated possibility of long-term impact, to harm and degrade the land, soil, environment, ecology; if not irreversible, very demanding to reverse. Without any doubts, intentions of such use is not to harm, but is to grow foods, meant to feed. The lasting impacts of human industrial processes causes to relocate before decomposition with higher probability of recycled into food chain.

Our outlook is, if it turns out to be degradation, it will reverse as the material involved are natural and nature is far more capable to reset in a very short period of time. As long as we are the stewards of the land, we can continue the manageability and when we become incapable of the management, we are committed to find sustenance of the land we are proud to steward.

We believe our initiatives have surpassed ideological bounds and have shown formative, substantial, quantifiable, measurable results.

Grateful for your attention and efforts.