- Iñaki's march. Iñaki de Larraspe de Orendain has left us very young. All death is painful, but when that pain extends to the most remote places, it is he who gives the measure of that loss. Iñaki was a model farmer. He was a man of an entrepreneurial spirit, who smelled of what was coming, who deliberated and did what he had to do. They had cows of milk at home, cows at home, cows at family, and so he cared for them with their siblings. Today, many dairy cows feed on foreign food, they're not in land-linked farmhouses. They're empty incubators: they don't create food on their lands, they don't have any connection to the environment, they don't preserve landscapes and they create a real culture. Our Iñaki couldn't even see it.
In Larraspi, the domestic mare feeds on the exploitation of the surrounding lands. Forages of fields and grasslands and water from a deep subsoil. The milk that comes out of that barn can be told of it. Not milk produced in such milk, food and water and milk produced by cattle declared from their homes.
In Larraspi, the feeding of cows is completed with the regeneration of water extracted from the subsoil. Many pitches are flushed and converted into cultivated fields and create many forages of their own. Maize (Zea mays), for example. But he had a suspicion that there was no good soil or good food. We are on the way to solving this assumption. I wanted to feed the cows, but I also wanted to feed the land. One of their concerns was fertilizer. So he asked me to help him, he took me as a travel companion to take care of the soil quality. What I said before, I will never get bored: you have to take care of the life of the earth. The garfio is easy to say and understand, but elaboration is the cider of the other barrel. With the right equipment, the least amount of labor possible and taking advantage of the work spaces that allow us time, there are few plots suitable for a good crop. In this way, we must measure by a millimeter what we are working on in this field and achieve the two objectives: to enrich the land and to restore quality fodder. Give the land and take it from the ground. Wheat (Triticum aestivum), barley (Hordeum vulgare), rye (Secale cereale), oats (Avena sativa), txirta (Vicia sativa), peas (Pisum sativum)... It wasn't growing in those fields. He talked about the technique of green fertilizer: with the crops a lot of soil was made in depth, the food was raised, the soil was filled with nitrogen with the legumes and a perfect forage was achieved for those of the house. Aware of the serious problem generated by the barn purine in the surrounding lands and with a clear wager on the future, he was the first to bring the machine to bury them. He also dug in it the solid manure he had made with Mind. All for the good of their lands.
Iñaki was not the shooting cow that tilted the neck to what the covert bosses of the peasants and the caciques and the caciques say. It was an example for many, and it has shown the way. Like many other young people.
I didn't stop asking me to send him all the books I've published with some special offer for his mother. I wrote on the first page the offer I love most lately, “For Maite, hold the land head and heart,” and sent him a book of 111 sheets and pages. There she has many lessons learned and worked with her son and many others. A kiss for Maitere and his own.