Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[<pbunch@cox.net>]

Interesting observation. I wonder what the ratio between intensive:extensive 
growing has to be. Also what differences might be required in compost verses 
manures as means of transporting the nutrients. I suspect that P, K and trace 
minerals would become critical as legumes can supply the N. It would seem 
that human waste  recycling would become a critical component.



---- Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> >Thus America a century ago had two separate systems of food production.

These two systems always existed side by side, and still do in many parts of 
the World, but they are not “separate”, since the intensively farmed kitchen 
garden depends on the fertility input from the fields, in particular from the 
grazing land, mostly in form of manure.  Thus the “intensively” farmed 
kitchen garden is only possible because of the fertility inputs from the 
“extensively” farmed fields.

Dieter Brand
Portugal



      
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