Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dianne Palmer-Quay <R_DQuay@compuserve.com>]

Although our state also is low on the amount of organic gardening
information in the Master Gardener program (it's left up to individual
counties), a recent meeting with some sustainable ag folks and Extension
agents, made it clear that those agents, at least, would be willing to
share organic information if it was backed by research.  They wouldn't be
willing to promote organic over conventional, but they were willing to
support organic efforts if they were convinced that the ideas had financial
merit and were "research-based" (the key word in Extension).  I think that
gives us some hope since more research is available now, from sources that
would be acceptable to Extension agents.

Dianne in SC