Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I'd like to know who was writing that organics is "so hard", because they
don't know their butt from a hole in the ground. And I wonder what you'd
expect to find in any garden in mid-winter. Did you expect to see tools in
use and irrigation? And exactly how does winter compost show "signs of
neglect"? Aren't you supposed to "neglect" compost till it's time to use
it? Maybe you can clarify what you're driving at. If you have some hard
information about the Chadwick Garden and Center for Agroecology I'd like
to see it. 

That's Chadwick, btw.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/16/2007 at 2:54 PM Zachary Domikez wrote:

>Several months ago, there was lots of writing about:
>RE : USSC Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food
>Systems
>
>and also the general topic of WHY is organics so hard.
>
>I went to UCSC and was distressed at the conditions. 
>It was February, mid-winter, but there we sighs and
>cries from the plants, and the roofed areas were sad
>and dry.  Of course, whenever many volunteers are
>involved in complex systems, some info falls thru the
>cracks and compost, tools and irrigation all showed
>signs of neglect.
>
>I hope someone else has had positive experiences with
>volunteers... I have worked with WWOOF on my place,
>and had some great help, and some sad cases.  hmmmmmm.
>
>Regards,
>zzzzzz
>It ain't easy being green - Kermit