Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

True Harvey but then a lot depends on rain fall and erosion without trees. We used to find hardly any tall vegetation except for gorse here 26 years ago. And there was no real soil but only subsoil. And this land had been heavily grazed for hundreds of years. We needed 3 to 4 acres to keep one sheep going year round. Now we can keep 5 sheep on one acre. And we have tall trees too to break wind and rain and they improve the land by their leaf fall.

John

On 09/28/2013 10:52 PM, tradingpost wrote:

524795E7.2010406@lobo.net" type="cite">As I understand it, living forests sequester more CO2 while producing O2 than burning them down to make biochar.

 
Let's not forget the enormous potential for sequestering carbon in soil with big changes in the way we do agriculture. I highly recommend COWS SAVE THE PLANET by Judith Schwartz (Chelsea Green 2013). She reports the work of a number of researchers who believe that we could change the CO2/climate equations much faster than most of us imagine by switching to agricultural practices that sequester soil carbon--grasslands plus grazing livestock and the like. Check it out.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
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