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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The only way to tell what your soil really needs???
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:56:49 -0400

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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Harvey in northern Va
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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





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