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HOME PAGE Sovereignty Library Health Library Health begins in the soil. Welcome To The Holistic Agriculture Library Catalogs Of The Holistic Agriculture Library What This Library Is All About Radical agriculture is a study of, and program for, handling the close connection between the health of the soil and the health of those organisms that feed from that soil. Those "organisms" include human beings. Modern, industrial agriculture primarily focuses on the size and volume of the crop harvested (bulk yield), and the commercial aspects of that production (profit). It tends to pay small attention to the nutritional content of the food we grow. Aside from obsessive cancerfearmongering connected with pesticide residues in our food, popular consciousness pays far to little attention to the mass degeneration resulting from eating the industrial food we grow. This degeneration includes a lot of human misery and sickness, a greatly shortened lifespan and an enormously lowered level of civilization, because, simply, we don't live long enough to get enough smart. As industrial agriculture began to prevail, certain far-sighted individuals asked worrysome questions about the wisdom of managing farms for bulk yield and profit. Their concerns coalesced into various movements and "schools" including (but not limited to) the "Organic" school and the "Biodynamic" school. And there were some mavericks whose understanding was so unique, so independent and so non-dogmatic that it did not appeal to true-believing mindsets like J.I. Rodale. These remarkable individuals have been largely ignored by the mainstream that controls "alternative" thought today. The purpose of the Holistic Agriculture Library is to bring all these thinkers together into one place and to preserve this wisdom. These wisdoms still have not been applied. Catalogs Of The Holistic Agriculture Library Hopkins, Cyril. The Story of the Soil. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1910.
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