Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Still, what organic no-till or any intensive method can do is severely 
limited by nations' policies dispossessing hundreds of millions of any land 
at all. I agree on your point about education and birthrate. Yet with 
worldwide economic decline, education of the poor is rapidly becoming a lost 
priority.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 9/25/2010 at 6:15 AM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>John Jeavons, Ecology Action, does not import anything to the garden.  He
>uses green manure/cover crops to provide organic matter and crop waste. 
>Of course, he double digs which waste OM.
> 
>When people are destroying OM, we should use it.
> 
>People are concerned about a rising population.  From my experience in
>Africa and reading:   As education levels among a population rises, the
>birthrate goes down. 
> 
>There is no doubt in my mind that organic, no-till can feed the world
>regardless of how high the population goes.
> 
>Ken Hargesheimer