Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Which is exactly the mission of the Quivera Coalition I referred to. 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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On 6/15/2006 at 6:38 PM Ryan Albinger wrote:

>Why do we need use of marginal land?  Make it better and it will become
>more useful.  1 acre of poor land recieves similar amount of solar energy
>as does 1 acre of good land.  Make more use of the free energy.  Browsing
>cattle over vast areas is just the cheapest way to pay on poor land, sure
>can't run equipment over it.
>Take a look at Holistic Resource Management and you will see successful
>methods to tend fragile land and ecosystems and prevent desertification. 
>Primarily managed grazing based.
>Ryan
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>> [Original Message]
>> From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Date: 6/15/2006 10:39:47 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the
>world/wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug
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>>
>> Why do we have to have any use of poor grassland in the first place?
>>
>> paul, tradingpost@riseup.net