Perceptions of doing in ecological agriculture: the contradictions of ‘clean’ and ‘not clean’

Abstract

The current study occupies itself in analyse the relation between the farmers and the nature on
the context of ecological agriculture from conflicts “clean garden” and “unclean garden”. Those
expressions, that on the article we presente as complaints, are due to the reviews from the
convencional way to make agriculture, that nominate the organic farmers as “stupids” or “crazies”
because they don’t use pesticide in their Family places. For that, it were done visitations
to groups of agroecological families that lives in the Paraná Southwest, trying to understand
the farmers daily. Between the many informations about the practice of agroecological agriculture,
the subject “clean Garden” and “unclean Garden” emerge as coming from different
knowledges and the defense of those practices are explained for the sustentation of tension
between ecological agriculture and the convencional.