Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

No-till doesn't have to mean no initial digging or tilling when first
starting new growing areas. Whether you turn and mix soil to get beds set
up depends on what you've got to begin with. Some will say just layer
materials on top of sod or whatever. I don't say one way is right or wrong.
On another list I brought up no-till as done by Eliot Coleman and they
sandbagged the whole issue deliberately by quarrelling over the definition
of no-till. And when they got downright abusive about it I realized the
tentacles of Monsanto, ADM, Cargill, and John Deere don't miss the
Internet.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/19/2007 at 5:34 PM J Bailey wrote:

>We have a 'date' with a friend who butchers every kind of critter for
>when 
>the weather is better. We just couldn't face learning while it's nearly 
>freezing, dark & pouring rain, especially when we don't have a covered
>area 
>to work in right now. The info you have is great though, and something I 
>look forward to sharing with others and keeping myself. It's good to have 
>such a detailed guide as a back up.
>
>The rest of our flock is working over the sod we just flipped. Hopefully 
>we'll just have to till it once, and keep it in shape by non-mechanical 
>means after it's been in production.
>
>How do no-till folks break virin sod to veggie gardening?
>--Joanna