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Hi folks
I've been asked to make a presentation to an organic
farmer discussion group
on 'healthy soil'. I thought it was important to
define 'healthy soil' for
my talk, however, on trawling the web and leading
organic institutions
(IFOAM, Soil Assn, Rodale Inst., Soil & Health Assn.
websites none of them
appear to give a succinct answer to the question
'What is a healthy soil?'.
I of course realise that this is not a simple thing
to define and is many
things to many people, but considering 'healthy
soil, healthy food healthy
people' is a defining catch-cry and mantra for the
organic movement, it
seems odd that we have not defined healthy soil by
now, especially
considering the huge effort put into sorting out the
IFOAM principles and
current work on a definition of organics.
I welcome peoples comments and thoughts
Cheers
Merf
Charles 'Merf' Merfield
Organic Agriculture Research Officer
Teagasc
Johnstown Castle Research Centre
Co. Wexford
Republic of Ireland
Phone +353 (0)53 917 1268
Mobile +353 (0)87 416 3635
Fax +353 (0)53 9142213
charles.merfield@teagasc.ie
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