Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I'm as organic as I can get, tho one amendment is alfalfa meal that probably 
wouldn't pass certification. There is no other source of high nitrogen waste 
around like grass clippings, since nobody has grass within miles and in the 
city it'd have poisons in it. I'm close to no-till now after amending the 
dead dirt. Otherwise I couldn't have grown and sold from the start. As for BI 
I can't double dig as Jeavons did. The hard, sterile subsoil here is three 
inches below surface so I frame beds and build soil up to get some depth. 
Rule #1 is always right.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 11/25/2010 at 4:34 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>When I teach a workshop, I post the following at the front of the room:
> 
>DO NOT BUY ANYTHING,
>FROM ANYBODY,
>AT ANYTIME,
>FOR THE FARM OR GARDEN
>[a few rare exceptions].
> 
>Seed is one exception.
> 
>Fertilizer comes form green manure/cover crops. Rarely, something has to
>be added in certain soils. 
> 
>I began practicing BI in 1982  and took the 3 day biointensive workshop in
>1997 and by 2000 I stopped teaching it and teach organic, no-till since. 
>I have a free dvd I will send to anyone who request it.
> 
>Rule no. 1   ADD ORGANIC MATTER.  If you want ten rules, repeat no. 1 nine
>more times.