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  • From: Marty Kraft <martyk AT allspecies.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Coleman: "We no longer dig the garden." / No-till in the organic mainstream
  • Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:18:24 -0600

I guess I'm more interested in the amount of disturbance the broadfork does to the community of soil organisms. What does it do to micorizzal fungi? Would their be much loss of carbon from the soil. If you just rock back on the fork enough to move the soil would that keep the disturbance low enough while causing enough loosening for good root growth? I guess that depends on the definition of enough. Isn't root growth the purpose of using the broadfork?

Marty
Kansas City
On Feb 1, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Steve Diver wrote:

Paul wrote:

"I'm sure you understand that shallow weed hoeing
(or using the broadfork) is not tillage."


Fyi, I've always viewed the broadfork as the gardeners
equivalent of a chisel plow (primary tillage), to be followed
by a Warren hoe and then a four-prong rake (secondary tillage)
to break up the clods and prepare a seedbed.

Steve Diver







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