Re: humus-intensive, soil building contacts

**"Tradingpost" t*@gilanet.com**

Not testing anything. I'm just a small market gardener in remote southwest, and very interested in doing more with less and promoting the concept.

paul, tradingpost@gilanet.com
http://medicinehill.net

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry 

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On 11/30/2005 at 10:57 AM Mike McGrath wrote:

>Paul: Sounds like you're testing new brand names. Try searching
>"Sustainable 
>agriculture" and "organic farming and gardening" and you'll be overwhelmed.
>                                ---Mike McG
>
>PS: I much preferred Howard's "An Agricultural Testament"
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
>To: <community_garden@mallorn.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:46 AM
>Subject: [cg] humus-intensive, soil building contacts
>
>
>> I'm requesting offlist contacts or exchanges from anyone doing *highly* 
>> humus-intensive, biologically intensive, organic soil building, or
>anyone 
>> working in that direction.  It would be along the lines of Sir Albert 
>> Howard's work ("The Soil and Health") 65 years ago or more recently 
>> Chadwick's or Jeavon's work they called biointensive.  I'm engaged in
>this 
>> and it doesn't matter to me what you call it, perhaps even permaculture
>or 
>> biodynamic or Perelandra or something else, so long as it involves 
>> building living, highly humus-intensive, highly productive and pest-free 
>> growing soil.  I'm finding it unusually difficult to locate others on
>the 
>> Internet doing this who can discuss methods and results.
>>
>> If you contact me please make the subject "humus-intensive, soil
>building 
>> contacts" so I'll see it among all my messages. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> paul, tradingpost@gilanet.com
>> http://medicinehill.net
>>
>> The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all 
>> our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to 
>> foster its renewal is our only hope.
>>   - Wendell Berry
>> /

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