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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] learning curve
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:01:01 -0000


--how do you suppose the plains of the Midwest got so deep and
fertile?--bison in herds up to a million individuals grazing them and pooping on them, one of the most beautiful examples of a symbiotic ecology you could find anywhere.
~Harvey

To keep minerals in place it was also necessary for the bison to die and become compost itself, possibly helped by carnivores.
john





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