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Holistic Farming
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnGalway" data-source="post: 7403359" data-attributes="member: 204"><p>Humans brought a problem in the shape of the plough. Even the most rudimentary plough caused compaction, maybe only a couple of inches down, and subsequently erosion. Back in Greek times Plato commented on erosion, it took a long time back then as they didn't have the helpful technology to plough often. So land would have looked very, very different to the first humans than to us now. Or look at the settlers in America, and their astonishment of the fertility of the land, and what the ended up doing to it, wore it out ploughing, growing tobacco etc. So, I reckon a lot of problems were man made, which they did their best at the time to remedy though drainage, but that was addressing a symptom, not the root cause. Pre man, pre disturbance, Nature would have had structure in the soil, which does a lot of great things like slow water down but not turn it to swamp, hold nutrients, aerate soil etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnGalway, post: 7403359, member: 204"] Humans brought a problem in the shape of the plough. Even the most rudimentary plough caused compaction, maybe only a couple of inches down, and subsequently erosion. Back in Greek times Plato commented on erosion, it took a long time back then as they didn't have the helpful technology to plough often. So land would have looked very, very different to the first humans than to us now. Or look at the settlers in America, and their astonishment of the fertility of the land, and what the ended up doing to it, wore it out ploughing, growing tobacco etc. So, I reckon a lot of problems were man made, which they did their best at the time to remedy though drainage, but that was addressing a symptom, not the root cause. Pre man, pre disturbance, Nature would have had structure in the soil, which does a lot of great things like slow water down but not turn it to swamp, hold nutrients, aerate soil etc. [/QUOTE]
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