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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] TWO AGRICULTURES, NOT ONE, By John Michael Greer
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 7:03:05 -0700

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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