Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net>]

The big difference was the plow.  Without plows, it was easier for early inhabitants to exploit forest than prairie.  And they used the Forest Garden model more often, not relying as much on annual or grain crops (except for Maize), as Europeans.  Of course, the plains indians leaned heavily on herbivores - the Bison.

On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:39 AM, Pete Vukovich wrote:

"native North Americans preferred forest, rather than grassland, as sites for agriculture — the forest land was more fertile,"

I don't think thats backed up by soil science and probably not a majority of native american tribes either. Which particular tribe is he thinking of?



--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Food and Population
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 3:14 PM

Food and Population
by Peter Goodchild   01 February 2010
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=600&Itemid=1

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