Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

You'd know to use a stick, right?

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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Many types of jobs will cease to exist: public relations executive, 
marketing directors, et cetera. I think work will be very hands-on, 
and a lot of it will revolve around food production.
    -- James Howard Kunstler, 2003
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On 7/1/2006 at 9:19 PM Mark Nagel wrote:

>I'm not Paul (and never played one on TV either), but I'll give it a
>shot...
>
>Plants require minerals in order to grow, not other plants.
>
>It's the process of breaking down biomass in order to present minerals for
>plant uptake that we're after.  Microbes primarily (only?) perform this
>work.
>
>Now Paul, about that idea of sticking one's hand in the pile to see if
>it's warm enough, should I look to do this if I was composting humanure?
>:-() (which I'm not)
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA
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