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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Soilmakers list
  • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:59:17 -0700

Seeing the response to our inquiries about humus-intensive soil building from
many places, we've started a list for discussion and information exchange.
This is your invitation to our new Soilmakers list which you can join by
1. sending an email to Soilmakers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (and reply to the
confirmation)
2. or by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Soilmakers/ .

>From our description page:
Soilmakers is about humus-intensive, organic soil building. We want to deal
with the widespread problems of loss of soil minerals, humus, nutritional
content of produce, and loss of topsoil itself, as well as the cost-price
squeeze faced by real organic growers, the shrinking supply of affordable
land for growing, and the need to increase the supply of nutritious food
while making healthy food more affordable in general. Our generation cannot
continue to plunder the soil capital of future generations.

Intensive, organic soil building can realistically be the basis of growing
more in less space with better nutrition, fewer problems with pests and
disease, remediating chemically depleted soils, more profitable growing
through less bought inputs, and less vulnerability to fossil fuel problems
now and in the future. What ways this can best be pursued in different soils
and climates leaves a lot of room for discussion. There are many ways of
getting the right biology back into the soil.

Welcome to the cutting edge!

paul, tradingpost@gilanet.com
http://medicinehill.net

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our
most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its
renewal is our only hope.
- Wendell Berry




  • [Livingontheland] Soilmakers list, Tradingpost, 11/30/2005

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