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  • From: Bob Ewing & Jocelyn Paquette <sixdegrees@baynet.net>
  • To: permaculture@ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Energetics
  • Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:53:14 -0400

Stone Age Farming: Eco-Agriculture for the 21st Century

Alanna Moore

Python Press, Australia copyright 2001 isbn:
0-646-41188-8

A Review

The opening words of Stone Age Farming echo a crucial
message. You may have heard thesewords
or something like them before: We humans are destroying the earth upon which
we depend for our very lives.
Industrial forestry and industrial farming have and continue to damage the
soil upon which existence rests. What
makes Moore's words stand out is that she is not
preaching doom and gloom but simply setting
the scene before presenting a way out, in fact several ways out.

That there are alternatives, readily available
alternatives to our current industrial
agricultural methods is the central message of Stone Age Farming. This book
provides the farmer, the
urban gardener and all of us with not just hope, but a
hope that is based upon research and
development. A hope which rises from tried and tested
techniques which have improved the
health and vitality of the soil and those living on
and dependent upon that soil.

There is an old gardening saying that goes like this:
feed the soil. This is precisely what
Moore
is talking about when she discusses the effects that
adding rock dust to your land will
have. "
A healthy soils requires an extensive range of trace
elements to feed micro-organisms and
sustain the humus complex, and the finer the particles
these are supplied in, the quicker
the
microbes can incorporate into it. Basalt rock dust is
one of the best sources of minerals,
having a wide range of trace elements." (p.9)

Stone Age Farming also provides insights into the role
that paramagnetism, which is defined
as a weak attraction to a magnet, plays in the
development of healthy soil. "In soil it
(paramagnetism) is a measure of the soil's ability to
attract and hold energy."(p11)

Moore's exploration of the world of subtle energies
may be difficult for some to accept but
for
those who are seeking ways to improve plant growth her
well researched and documented work
provides the reader with genuine opportunities that
need serious consideration. If you are
concerned about the world's food supply, the
disappearance of topsoil, the shortage of water
or
simply want to raise good, healthy crops for your
family then read Stone Age Farming. The
time it will take you to finish the book will be time
well invested in your and your
family's future.






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