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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Rick Valley wrote:
> LL;
> The original (?) paper on terra preta in Amazonia was published in
> Ecological Restoration. There's mention of how the zone of terra preta is
> surrounded by a less fertile but still good soil zone, no pottery shards,
> and less diversity of fruit trees. An excellent illustration of zones for
> Pc! I'll try and track down the citation for you, tho I'm moving right now.

That sure would be a good example of zones to study. One might wonder why
the area they inhabited wasn't spread out over more square miles with the
extremities connected by trading routes, why they didn't seek prime areas
for farming nearer water or the best hunting grounds (maybe soil
type/tilth/fertility was the same over their entire bioregion and water and 
game
was available most anywhere). I wonder if they were primarily vegetarians.

I'd like to see your reference when you find it.

Did you buy new land or a farm?

Regarding our earlier conversations about Chillington hoes and their tools in 
general.
I found their website and called the company in England a few minutes ago. 
The manager
I talked with is emailing me contact info for their USA distributor. He asid 
that if
I could not get what I needed from that source to get back in touch with him 
and he would
sell to me directly from England. You really should see the catalog of tools 
shown on their
website; enough to make your mouth water. They show 50 different tools and 
2-5 different sizes
for each of them. The multi pronged "Chillington Hoe" is there in six 
different configurations.
Maybe it was the Canterbury Hoe you were talking about; probably made by 
Chillington.

Anyway here's contact info:

The Chillington Tool Company
011 44 1902 826826 Telephone (for USA access; this translates from: +44 (0) 
1902 826826)
Mr. Lawrence Askey (laskey@ralphmartindale.com)
A Ralph Martindale Group Company
crocodile@chillington.co.uk
http://www.chillington.co.uk/chillington.html
Crocodile USA (Chillington's USA Branch)
http://www.crocodileusa.com/
info@crocodileusa.com

I'll send the USA dealership contact info later.

LL
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