Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Chapter UX
Synergetic Agriculture
Necessary Changes

Successful agricultural practices depend on giving up some of the usual,
time-worn practices, such as opening the earth to air and oxidize it, which
practice indeed does lead to temporary blossoming of plant growth, but in
the long run leads to lack of nourishment and an increase in plant disease.
Methods without disturbing the earth lead to stable plant growth. If one
will keep the soil covered, this will lead to an increase in the amount of
organic material being returned to the soil. It is better to leave spent
plant material on top of the soil rather than plowing it in. Cartesian
science finds it difficult to understand and accept the holistic dynamic of
living organisms. This cultural denseness should not have the power to stop
us from finding a way to ensure nourishment for the plants without ruining
anything. In synergetic agriculture we make the conditions right for what
soil needs, and soil takes care of the rest. We are only imitating the way
soil nourishes itself wh!
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eft to itself. And we cross out both traditional and modern agriculture. It
is not easy to leave one's habits, and when the habit one is obliged to
leave is strengthened through tradition, through one's bank connection,
through agricultural schools, through the entire culture - then it is even
harder. What is needed is a deep and strong conviction that change is
necessary in order to swim against the current and become a pioneer for the
agriculture of the future, when soil, oil and good trade connections may
not be as plentiful as today. Manure and compost are hard to get in some
places. Knowing how one can produce nourishment before one uses up the
nourishment of the soil, could mean the difference between life and death.


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