Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Phil Bunch" <pbunch@cox.net>]

So the crops should be transported on mule back? The main reason cocaine is
a crop of choice in Colombia is because farmers need a crop they can
transport to market efficiently. Mules are great for high value products but
for tomatoes and potatoes they are less desirable.

Perhaps in an ideal world all crop residue would be returned directly to the
soil and people would start doing this tomorrow. That is unlikely to cut the
mustard in the short to mid-term. If the world is going to make the required
transitions it is going to do so with the help of the internal combustion
engine. 

Something about the baby with the bath water?

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Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Ethanol from Coffee


It an example of how organic wastes can be diverted from soil building to
prop up our unsustainable energy-hog society. With the rising cost of all
the fossil-fuel based inputs, all available organic wastes need to be
returned to the soil to rebuild soil and maintain food production. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/23/2007 at 6:21 AM Phil Bunch wrote:

>In Colombia they are developing a process to distil ethanol from coffee
>waste products. Coffee berries have a sweet pulp around the coffee bean
>that
>currently is thrown away and causes a lot of contamination of rivers. The
>preliminary testing indicates that the process will be cheap and will
>produce significant amounts of ethanol for fuel.
>
>This is a really good example of how reduced dependency on oil can create
>new opportunities and solve problems. It also will not reduce food
supplies
>as do other sources and will provide extra income for the coffee growers.
>This looks like a big win-win.
>
>Phil Bunch
>
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