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Re: rototilling

I might be way out in left field, but wasn't Mr. Rodale advocating methods 
which had been taught to starving farmers in India by an Englishman, and were 
they not largely based on smothering weeds between rows and using manures of 
any age?  the soils which were being farmed were very similar to the "Georgia 
red clay" of many lamentations. 

FYI Mike Dirr thinks his red clay is fine, because he understands how to 
handle it.  Certainly citizen groups are welcome and needed, but I wonder if 
the Peace Corps didn't have access to academic researchers for info about 
recommended methods for wherever they were working.  Certainly the way 
ornamental plants are handled in the leafy green($) suburbs of Boston is 
different from Bosnia or Tasmania, or Kenya, but shouldn't some science guide 
our use of available materials to grow food?  People are very fond of doing 
what seemed like a good idea to grand dad even when it doesn't hold up next 
to modifications based on 20th century science.
I have seen agronomists with graduate degrees challenged by some sites within 
30 minute drive of Beacon Hill.  
I am not advocating strict adherence to a protocol, just making some effort 
to understand the conditions plus the possibilities for modifications, before 
taking action.

Barbara Emeneau

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