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> Soil fertility can be returned to historical levels by changing farming practices to make living soil. Seems easier to just add the missing minerals/chemical
by mbell 7y ago
> Soil fertility can be returned to historical levels by changing farming practices to make living soil.
Seems easier to just add the missing minerals/chemicals to the soil.
- bad_user 7y agoIsn't that kind of thinking what got us here in the first place? We may not even know the full range of micro-nutrients that the soil has been depleted of.
- mbell 7y ago> We may not even know the full range of micro-nutrients that the soil has been depleted of. You may not know the full range of micro-organisms needed or how to care for them to achieve this 'living soil'. Taking agriculture backward a hundred years isn't a path forward.