Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Yes, tho they did specify it was only about the organic movement in this
country. As opposed to traditional practices in the past. I agree with the
need to recognize the real history of organic agriculture.

And you're correct; Liebig did regret the opinion later in life. Most
writers don't know this.  Scientists following him missed that point and
agribusiness since then pushed his original view. I've never actually read
his words on it, thanks.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/24/2008 at 1:07 PM Dieter Brand wrote:

>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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