permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 11/14/2011 5:31 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> They don't yet know how it works? But they are already telling everybody how
> to make it? Burning the planet to cool it?
> If it were not for the very name which comes under the heading of
> "new-speak" in Brave New World more people might wonder if it worked at all
> as do I. Bio means life and char means coal and freedom is slavery and war
> is peace.

Its all about using an industrial (probably wasteful and polluting 
processes) byproduct to create another product to market for high dollar.

It does not make any sense to char biomass to make charcoal that then 
must be pulverized and field spread (often using fossil fuel) when all 
that needs to be done is to allow weeds to control weeds, crimp or roll 
them to make a semi living mulch that controls weeds, adds seeds and 
organic matter to soil to increase OM and eventually humus while 
significantly building soil quality and productive capacity.

Thumbs up for notill agriculture (and minimum till).

LL