Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Wayne" <wa2yne@gmail.com>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Leake" <wa2yne@gmail.com>
To: <wa2yne@netzero.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:33 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Livingontheland] Growing Soil and Organically in the desert


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Soilsecrets@aol.com <Soilsecrets@aol.com>
> Date: Dec 1, 2006 11:52 AM
> Subject: [Livingontheland] Growing Soil and Organically in the desert
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org, tradingpost@riseup.net
>
> 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
>
>
> "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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