Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Debbie McDonald <lbirke1@yahoo.com>]

But humans already tilled the land. I researched online when I first moved to E TX. There were articles about the small towns, and how fertile the soil was. They called it sandy loam. The trees were cut, the sandy loam turned to sand in my opinion. Various crops were grown. The soil was raped. When the forest decayed constantly, it kept it's mineral content right. When man started to export from that land, the minerals were never replenished. How does composting overcome that.? Or if the animals graze it and are moved away, same thing. I have this sandy soil,  I need to know.

  I have one of the books by Prince Charles about his land Highgrove. In that book that I have, they talk about oak leaves not being good for compost as the high tannic acid content would not be good. I have not found answers to that here.

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From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 2:47:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] learning curve

For healthy soil and the finest soil do three things:

 

1. Add organic matter

2. Add organic matter

3. Add organic matter

 

Do not purchase anything from anybody at anytime for the garden/farm except seed and be careful doing that.

 

This is so simple but with high Tech thinking, it is too simple.  I have never seen nature till the jungle; I have never seen nature till the forest;

I have never seen nature till the praire [man did and what a mess].

 

Ken