permaculture

[Claude William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

Thanks Will,

Here's where I read it :

"Hi folks,
    I came across Sally Fallon's keynote address from the 2003 NOFA  
conference, on an excellent web site on making local economics  
happen...solari.com.  It is such a good piece,  I thought I'd pass it  
along en masse to friends.
http://www.solariactionnetwork.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php? 
p=1769&sid=faad959059ba58d58a424f4adb006535
    This leads me to write a little more, as the recipients of this  
letter are all friends, some of whom I have not spoken with for a while.
    We are aiming to form a cow share corporation here on Cimarron  
Farm, so the above topic and the benefits possible are on our minds.
    Here on the farm, things are progressing wonderfully.
    We have just begun the sharemilking transition of the dairy from  
Teddy and Mary to the Collins family.  We are nearing completion of  
the Keyline flood-irrigated landscape we have been working on for  
some years.  Two large new ponds, complete with bobbing water birds,   
are new centerpieces on the farm.
    Holistic Management in general and holistic management planned  
grazing in particular have yielded amazing fruit...or new topsoil,  
plentiful grass and 100% grassfed milk, as the case may be.
    We want to let the world, and our friends in particular,  in on  
a strategy for  renewal that we dedicate much of our daily lives to.   
It is simple.

    Through the practice of holistic decision making, holistic  
planned grazing and Keyline soil development, grass farmers can  
create 6" and more of new topsoil per year.
    Building topsoil this quickly  can halt and 'reverse' climate  
change before my daughter is a teenager.
    Six inches of new topsoil is on the order of topsoil created  
under a forest or prairie in thousands of years.  For example, the  
Natural Resource Conservation Service of the US has long held and  
publicized that "it takes nature a thousand years to build an inch of  
topsoil."
    Growing new topsoil can also be described as the transformation  
of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into humus, or stable organic  
matter, in the soil.
    The agents of this alchemy, in the context of  humans growing  
and eating food,  are a grand opera starring microbes and the teeming  
world of soil dwellers, pasture plants and animals,  livestock,   
grassfarmers and their eating, paying customers.  Gaia, the living  
earth, is both the setting and the mother of us all.
    Topsoil, the living, placenta-like nourisher of all life, is the  
stage for and the basic substance of the actors involved in its  
regeneration.  Can you imagine soil rising into the patterns of  
people, microbes, animals and plants, turning further into  
atmosphere, or falling back into itself, only to rise again?  I see  
this everyday on the farm and it makes me feel a part of big and  
beautiful universe.
   Building topsoil at this unprecedented rate, if carried out by  
enough farmers witht the support of conscious eaters, could restore  
biodiversity and transform global ecology, almost overnight.  That  
would be a welcome encore after the tragedies unfolding around the  
world with such relentless regularity these days.
    Our atmosphere is comprised of the waste gases of life on earth,  
or life within a living earth.  The atmosphere is the breath of  
Gaia.  By increasing biodiversity and building topsoil,  through  
eating the meat and dairy produced by holistic grassfarmers, humans  
can reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to pre-industrial levels  
within a decade.
    I hope that this news gives you hope."


Best Regards,

Claude William Genest

 - Founder  Green Mountain Permaculture Institute of Vermont
Solutions, Sustenance, Sustainability
www.greenmountainpermaculture.com

- Creator  "Regeneration - The Art of Sustainable Living"
From "Something-Must-be-Done" to Something we can do !
www.regenerationshow.com

- Ecological Coordinator
Club St.Paul Ecological Golf Course

- Vice-President  Green Party of Quebec "pour nous et nos enfants"
www.pvq.qc.ca

- National Spokesperson Green Party of Canada
"The Future is Now ! "
www.greenparty.ca




On Jan 26, 2006, at 10:53 PM, Will Carey wrote:

> Claude...
>
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> <http://www.remineralize.org/don/synopsis01.html>
>
> Hamaker and Weaver review evidence that past interglacial periods  
> like our
> own came to rapid ends, and stress the wisdom of acting swiftly and  
> with
> unprecedented foresight to head off the next long glacial period by
> remineralizing and re-planting the Earth, enabling the revitalized  
> soil and
> tree and plant life to draw down CO2 levels from the current 370+  
> ppm to the
> approximate normal interglacial range of 260-280 ppm
>
> Will from Oregon.
>
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:34:26 -0500
> > From: Claude William Genest <genest@pivot.net>
> > Subject: [permaculture] Soil and Co2
> > To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Message-ID: <1236753E-FF70-47C8-8C80-EDD0B77A815D@pivot.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
> >
> > I read or heard somewhere ( Allan Savory ? Ken Yeoman) that if we
> > could increase top soil by 1% we could absorb some outlandish amount
> > of c02 - Anyone know what I'm talking about ? anyway to substantiate
> > this ?
> >
> > BTW, the greens got 5 % of votes here in Canada's federal  
> > election....
> >
> > Claude William
>
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