Re: Re: tilling

I have to largely agree with Ken. I think a site should be tilled and enhanced with compost to start, but there are many benefits to not tilling again after that.
---Mike McG in Philly
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hargesheimer" <minifarms@gmail.com>
To: <community_garden@mallorn.com>
Cc: "ROBERT HARTMAN" <rhartman2003@msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [cg] Re: tilling


There is unlimited documentation that organic, no-till gardening and farming
is right way to produce food. 200,000,000 acres worldwide and increasing
fast, especially in Asia. There is never a good reason to till. Using
this, perpetual cropping is recommended. In fact, the soil is better each
year than the past year.

There is no reason to ever till. There is no reason to use fallowing and
rebalance native microoganisms because no-till does not put them out of
balance. It is the opposite. It is so balanced, the population explodes.

Read two little books by Ruth Stout. Email me to send over a page of
websites, DVDs, documents, etc.

Ken Hargesheimer





For practical purposes that means some form of tillage.

It would be really nice if we could just cut a line, stuff the opening
with
compost, and plant into it, rather than turning soil over. However, the
most practical thing is probably to go back to the system of crop rotation
where every few years a plot is allowed to lie fallow and rebalance its
population of native microorganisms.

All the best,

Robert Hartman

rhartman2003@msn.com

"We are stardust. We are golden." --Joni Mitchell


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