>From what I have seen there was very little Composting operation with regard to the size of the whole farm. Secondly, one can enhance natureīs way by adding some key minerals that are in short supply in our geologically old and eroded tropical soils. Lack of nodulation in legumes could very well be a lack of Molybdenum, as I have noticed there. In a soil without a good microbial life one can expect little to no transmutation and therefore I see no chance to correct any defficiency without adding what is missing. This strategy is highly criticized as being " non sustainable" by those fanatics and the situation goes on and on. They regard adding outside farm supplies almost like a sin. They want to free themselves from the "system" and so do I but in a situation like that I donīt think it is intelligent to condemn your soil to starvation simply because they decided that this is "non-sustainable" In my oppinion there should be a another way to face the situation. Some criteria has to be found like level of microbial activity, level of nutrients, etc... Finally, BD is a proven system worldwide and if it does not work in a particular farm or particular region it should be seen simply as incompetence from those who are running those places and in our particular case the official Demeter people.
Jose > > On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 07:07 AM, Rural Center for Responsible > Living wrote: > > > Dear Bonnie, > > > > Rudolf Steiner made it very clear in the lectures to farmers that the > > preparations were meant to enhance a sound animal based compost > > fertility > > management program. > > Thanks Christy. Yes. This was my understanding. > > I am a little confused at the Brazilian practices described by > > Jose, since most of the preparations are to be added to compost, and to > > think of adding compost for 27 years and see no results? Were they even > > composting? > > That is why I was confused about him telling of folks using the preps > alone. It sounded like they might not even be making compost. > > Bonnie York >
