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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "We are stardust. We are golden." --Joni Mitchell > > > ______________________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to > find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > > To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
