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From: "Roger Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Biodynamic Food and Farming Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: Negative ion generator coils.
> Lloyd Charles wrote:
>
> >Maybe its because you live in a much more favoured area, the Monaro is
> >naturally treeless
> I don't believe the Monaro is 'naturally' treeless at all, my own
> thinking is that it is as much an energy thing as negative ion
> generators or geopathic stress lines.
Roger
Why is it that some people have such extreme difficulty
accepting the idea that trees are not always the ultimate form of
vegetation? A rich and diverse native grassland on fertile soil is somehow
an inferior landscape?
The Monaro was treeless when white settlers found it (OK so it was'nt lost)
and it was treeless for many thousands of years previous to that, Maybe the
aboriginals were telling fibs when they explained that their word meant no
trees?
So lets hear your definition of 'naturally' seeing that mine is wrong.
> However, the greatest difficulty I
> have with discussions of this nature is that people who are really 'big'
> on the spiritual side of things seem reluctant to go the extra step -
> and ask their spiritual guides just why it is that trees will not
> (apparently) grow on the Monaro.
You write the piece above as if it is some bad thing - the result of energy
'problems' that should be fixed so that trees will grow in abundance again?
Again - what is wrong with the idea that many areas of moderate to lower
rainfall where there are high fertility soils just plain dont need heavy
timber growth to get things done - and we are talking here of most of the
best cropping soils on the earth -our own black soils plains - the Pampas in
South America - north Americas prairies - the Russian wheatlands.
If you looked at inherent fertility, particularly trace mineral
availability, of these soils the penny might just drop! Why on earth do you
think those Monaro sheep and cattle are so good? Maybe they are raised on
soil with very high levels of available trace minerals.?
These rich topsoils DO NOT NEED the recycling effect of heavy tap rooted
plants (trees) to bring needed minerals up to replenish the denuded, leached
out topsoil.
For the purposes of this argument I use the term Monaro as it used to be -
referring to the treeless basalt plain area and not including the cleared
timbered lands around the periphery.
At least think about it anyway!
Cheers
Lloyd charles
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