smallscale COTTON GROWING

I AM INTERESTED in processes, how things are made from start to finish, like growing the wheat to grind to make flour to bake the bread sort of thing. And I suppose this is where the idea started. Being your average city slicker, I had never seen cotton growing, except in those old movies set in the deep (American) South, although I did know that we produced a fair bit of cotton here in Australia. Having worn cotton undies for years I assumed that it gave me a unique insight into the growing of the raw material . . . well perhaps not. But knowing nothing about its cultivation I was