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  • From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] TxBee Dry Land Farming
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:53:59 -0700 (PDT)

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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