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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Winter and spring vegetables
  • Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:19:17 -0700


Michael, our list doesn't send out attachments, and it would have run to
six megabytes if it did. HOWEVER to help out I did a little further
checking and found that those two imgages can still be viewed at
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/livingontheland/attachments/20061201/36d5
48de/attachment-0002.jpg
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/livingontheland/attachments/20061201/36d5
48de/attachment-0003.jpg

I believe the first is the smaller file size, for those of us without
broadband.

Being a born-again soil biology believer myself, I'm sure it's well worth
looking at and I'm sure it can be done, miraculous as it looks, and have no
doubt about the value of the biologicals. I'm quite familiar with the high
desert of northern AZ and NM. It's where I live. My soil isn't quite as bad
as the example there, but I'm working with dry rabbit brush land since
relocating to central NM and working to show what can be done with this
soil using certain natural amendments and intensive planting scenarios, and
due to Michael's information I'll include specific cover crops soon in
humus building.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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Hi everyone,

I just wanted to send this wonder image of fertile, delicious, wonderful
green success at a time of year that many of us enjoy seeing such things.
The
site is in the arid high desert of Northern Arizona where the soils are so

advanced in desertification that not a single blade of grass can be found
anywhere. The ecotone is dominated by declining junipers and ephedra
shrubs
reminiscent of the desert plateau region of the Sahara desert. Yet on
this site a
dear friend of mine has developed a garden extraordinarius in the form of
a
CSA Organic Farm. I've been watching this process happen and the soils
turn
from dry, crusty and barren to now having a rich black A horizon rich in
humus
about 2 - 3" deep followed with a really nice B horizon that is soft,
fluffy
and still rich in life about another 2 feet in depth. It is truly amazing

even for me and I do this kind of soil development as my life's work. I
hope
this list will allow these images to pass on to each of you and inspire
all
of us to keep working, and don't give up. I'd also like to add that the
water source is from a solar powered well, very low volume and all
irrigation is
done with sub irrigation T-tape. This is a large area and growing every
year. The grower is using our Soil Secrets protocol which supplements and
grows
humus faster than it can go away via natural losses.

Michael Martin Melendrez
Soil Secrets LLC
_www.soilsecrets.com_ (http://www.soilsecrets.com)


"Great ideas go through three phases, first they are ignored, then they
are
ridiculed and than they are considered intuitively obvious to anyone who
is
knowledgeable"


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