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- From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT marketfarming.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: No-till method research?
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:55:52 -0500
Here's one VA farmer who's been on the forefront
of no-till since the 80's. Cedar Meadow Farm.
I met him on the sanet list. He isn't organic, but his methods are
certainly more sustainable than conventional ag.
I agree with Jill somewhat on the increased
herbicides, but for small acreage gardening/farming that we all do, no till
doesn't need herbicides to be successful on this size scale. I do disagree
with "no till" destroying soil life. I watched it on farms on the
coast. In spite of a very slight increase of Round Up,
earthworms increased dramatically & soil compaction became much less of a
problem, especially after 3 years, when the farmers switched to no
till.
Liz
Laughing Brook Farm
Westfield NC
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No-till method research?,
Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 03/13/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/13/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Bev and Chuck Henkel, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Matthew Sullivan, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, cshel, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Allan Balliett, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Liz Pike, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Allan Balliett, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Liz Pike, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Joan Vibert, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, sunnfarm, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jeffery Blake, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jeffery Blake, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Peter Worsley, 03/15/2001
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