Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Fair question, IMHO. But they say getting the question right is 90% of the 
answer ...

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


   “All of the debts for society’s century-long industrial fiesta are coming 
due at the same time. We have no choice but to transition to a world no 
longer dependent on fossil fuels, a world made up of communities and 
economies that function within ecological bounds. How we manage this 
transition is the most important question of our time.”
-- Richard Heinberg

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On 9/30/2010 at 5:40 PM Mike wrote:

>I absolutely agree. We do the same here. I was more making the point
>about harvesting organic matter, that was grown specially for the
>purpose, as a growing system.
>
>As for the shovel or hoe? What a different world we would live in if the
>non-renewable resources had been used to create a renewable
>(sustainable) world. If our oil had been used to create shovels or other
>technology that could thereafter be used with the energy from the field.
>Instead we used our oil and steel to create a world that consumes oil.
>
>So back to the waste organic matter. It is here and now. But we have
>pretty much agreed that it is not going to be available forever. The
>question is, then, how can we use this non-forever resource to create a
>forever system. We absolute must use it. Otherwise it is like letting
>the oil gush into the sea. And in all probability, just as polluting.
>
>I don't have an answer, just the question.
>
>Mike
>
>Tradingpost wrote:
>> Sustainability is not the only consideration. I strongly urge recycling
>whatever organic waste we can use for growing. The fact that it may not be
>around at some time in the future is beside the point. It's here now and
>we can make good use of it or do less without it.
>>
>> You can take that argument to its logical conclusion and figure that if
>the resources to make the tiller or shovel or hoe didn't come from the
>selfsame plot then it's not sustainable.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net