Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[richard green <greenrw71@hotmail.com>]

Hi Harvey, I've enjoyed reading several of your articles on the web site looking forward to the book. Steve Solomon is a grown man and capable of defending his own opinions, of which he has many.....His last book was indeed mis-titled but worth reading it did contain some good information. It is surprising how few sharpen a shovel. On a side note I have also doubled the size of the compost bins hope to increase the amount I am making, now I've only got to find enough raw materials.

Rick

 

> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:51:34 -0500
> From: harvey@themodernhomestead.us
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the learning curve
>
> On 12/05/2010 01:47 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> > I followed Steve Solomon's list for a few years and eventually had to
> > give. . .
> > - he is dead against building up a soil with compost or organic matter
> > because he is convinced this breeds gazillions of crop eating pests
> > apart from bringing even more unwanted potassium in. ~John
>
> I found some things in his Hard Times book that were bizarre as well.
>
> I just started reading Sir Albert Howard's AN AGRICULTURAL TESTAMENT
> yesterday. One point he made strongly was that soils with a lot of
> organic matter produce crops that resist disease--and conversely,
> disease was on the increase where OM was going down with greater
> reliance on chemical fert's.
>
> ~Harvey
>
> --
> Harvey in northern Va
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> My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by Chelsea Green Publishing.
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