Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

Marty,

 

I have stopped reading all the doomsday articles and books.  John Jeavons talks about how the topsoil of the earth's farm land is washing away.  I do not believe it as some very knowledge people are saying that the world's farmers are doing a better job each year. Those doomsday people are not doing anything, not one thing, to help the situation.

 

Every country in the world can grow enough food to feed its population, especially in the tropics.  The reason they do not is because, first, the farmers do not know how to farm organically with no-till.  More and more are learning.  The governments and multi-nationally corporations control every thing for the benefit of the multi-nationals.  Neither one cares what happens to the subsistence farmers. 

 

Even those farmers who know how, sometimes cannot do what he knows to do because he cannot afford to spend US$12 for a bucket drip irrigation kit and other things he needs.  He probably knows to grow green manure/cover crops but the seed may be far away in the capital of the country. the fertilizer company salesman will go sell him some expensive chemicals, on credit, but no one can afford to go sell him a few pounds of seed.

 

Ken Hargesheimer

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