Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

Mark,

 

I have a DVD of two programs produced in Canada about Cuban gardening and farming.  As far as I know they are NOT no-till.   They will catch up someday.  I would love to teach a workshop there. Hablo español.

 

Ken Hargesheimer

activism98201@verizon.net wrote:

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

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

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