Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Among those links from Ken, this looks esp useful
No- till seeding machines for animal traction and small farmers, adresses
of manufacturers
http://www.rolf-derpsch.com/machines.html
and The importance of Green Manure Cover Crops
http://www.rolf-derpsch.com/covercrops.html

There's a lot of research and how-to information out there on cover crops
and green manures - and no-till.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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On 7/7/2006 at 7:23 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>There is really very little information about organic, no-till in
>permanent beds on the web or anywhere else.  No money to be made promoting
>it.
>
>  A chemical salesman tells a farmer why he should use chemicals,  the
>farmer buys and he gets paid by the sale.  I tell people to use
>organic, no-till for gardening and farming and that the farmer does not
>have to buy anything from anybody.  No profit in this!!!  Therefore, no
>one promotes except to help people and help the earth.
>
>  Websites:
>  newfarm.org [English, Japanese]; rolf-derpsch.com [English, Español,
>Deutsche];  rodaleinstitute.org;
>http://larryhaftl.com/ffo/farchive.html — Fukuoka natural farming —
>[English, française, italiana, deutsche, Portuguese, español]
>http://mulch.mannlib.cornell.edu/cclists.html#mulch, [English, Español,
>Française];  newfarm.org/depts/notill/index.shtml;
>cedarmeadowfarm.com/ [30 years of no-till farming]
>
>  Fukaoka Farm, Japan, has been no-till [rice, small grains,
>vegetables] for 70 years.  An Indian farmer has been no-till [vegetables]
>for 5 years.  A Malawi farmer has been no-till [vegetables] on permanent
>beds for 25 years.  A Honduras farmer has been no-till [vegetables &
>fruit] on permanent beds on the contour (73° slope] for 11 years.  Ruth
>Stout [USA] had a no-till garden for 30 years and 7,000 people visited her
>garden.  ¡It works!
>
>  Ken Hargesheimer