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  • From: Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] A History of Organic Farming--
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:07:36 -0800 (PST)

A rather biased history with a heavy Anglo-Saxon slant and some
inaccuracies. I wonder, can we really reduce the history of organic
farming to a couple of names. Millions of farmers up until living
memory have used traditional farming practices which were
essentially organic. I was still raised on an organic diet, only
nobody called it that then.

>Liebig's absolute concept of "only" inorganic nutrient uptake by plants is
>obviously inaccurate18 and yet it has persisted in modern soils ...
 
This may be true for the younger Liebig, yet Liebig the elder wrote
 
"What might justify my actions is the circumstance, that a man is the
product of his time, and he is only able to escape the commonly accepted views
if a violent pressure urges him to muster all his strength to struggle free of
these chains of error. The opinion, that plants draw their food from a
solution that is formed in the soil through rainwater, was everyone's belief.
It was engraved into my mind. This opinion was wrong and the source of my
foolish behaviour."
 
Dieter Brand
Portual


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