Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

I have added two notes below.   Ken H

--- On Fri, 7/4/08, Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com> wrote:

Generally, an acre of land is the maximum one person can take care of without machinery (oil). Use organic, no-till in permanent beds allows a person to farm much more than one acre. 

 

If the land is a type that requires hand work to prevent erosion

[the proper level of organic matter prevents erosion]

and to selectively tend to integrated crops, then the primary decision driver is how much it can produce with the resources available.

Dan C.
Belgium,WI

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