Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

Organic, no-till farming in permanent beds does not require the purchasing of anything except seed.  The soil gets a little richer each year. I visited a farm in Malawi that was 25 years old and the yields increased just a little bit each year. Soil was as black as the darkest night.

 

In my workshops, I post an 8½ x 14 inch piece of paper on the wall that says:  Do not buy anything, from anybody, at anytime for the farm.  Farmers in Honduras farm 10 acres with only a machete. 

 

We can feed the world's population regardless of how high it goes. 

 

Ken H