Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

On 08/24/2010 10:06 AM, Tradingpost wrote:
> . . .nature makes it simple for growers. And things have been growing for 
> eons without our help.  ~Paul
>    

This is a point I always make in my writings/presentations on soil 
fertility: In natural soil systems the world over, there is an increase 
in fertility *spontaneously* over time, without our intervention. 
Whereas industrial/chemical/tillage agriculture *degrades* soil 
fertility. Obvious lesson is to imitate processes at work in the natural 
systems just as much as possible.

~Harvey


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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that 
people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, 
will be treated as garbage.  ~Wendell Berry