Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

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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