Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[<activism98201@verizon.net>]

Just this past weekend I watched The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived 
Peak Oil and noted that they're not doing no-till.  Cuba has put a lot of 
study and effort behind their move toward more sustainability and organics, 
yet, from what I could tell (lots of oxen and clips of oxen-pulled plows), 
they're still doing tilling.

What gives?  Does anyone have any first-hand information on this/Cuba?


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


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From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>

Paul,     Organic, no-till works but the reason more farmers or mini-farmers 
or gardeners do not change to it is in their head; not in the garden.  I 
guess that is harsh but it is true.  I have seen it here and in every country 
I have taught in.  When I am told about someone who did it and failed and I 
learn what happened, it is the gardener who failed; not the method.     Ken 
Hargeheimer