Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Here's a fairly detailed answer to that, Dave 
http://www.compostnetwork.info/countries/france.htm


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/5/2006 at 8:33 AM David Anderson wrote:

>Im not what youd call an expert on composting but it has interested me
>recently. I wanted to make a good pile or 2 to help in the veggie garden. 
>Im away from home now in france visiting relatives.  All the farmers here
>with livestock save and compost the manure then spread it in the fields
>during the fall.  It breaks down and in spring they have great crops.  Im
>in normandy and the crops grow really well here.  They dont use raised
>furrows here like they do back home in LA but the crops grow very well
>indeed.  Is this standard practice in Europe?  It seems to be benefitting
>the farmers here and they have done it for centuries according to the
>locals.  I dont really know what kind of herbicides and fert they also use
>but the fields look great here and they are sold on the process.