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Sustainable Agriculture in practice: It's all about the soil...and carbon

Posted on October 11, 2008

For decades organic farming was written off as an impractical, unrealistic flight of fancy dreamed up by 60's-era hippies and those longing for a return to some pre-industrial, Eden with little or no grounding in what it actually takes to produce food for the masses. For a variety of reasons particular to North America, industrialized agriculture large scale monoculture and irrigation helped by regular and liberal doses of synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and other soil amendments, all regularly plowed over by big, heavy fossil fueled equipment-- has been, and l...

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