>From what I have seen there was very little Composting operation with regard to the size of the whole farm. Secondly, one can enhance nature�s way by adding some key minerals that are in short supply in our geologically old and eroded tropical soils. Lack of nodulation in legumes could very well be a lack of Molybdenum, as I have noticed there. In a soil without a good microbial life one can expect little to no transmutation and therefore I see no chance to correct any defficiency without adding what is missing. This strategy is highly criticized as being " non sustainable" by those fanatics and the situation goes on and on. They regard adding outside farm supplies almost like a sin. They want to free themselves from the "system" and so do I but in a situation like that I don�t think it is intelligent to condemn your soil to starvation simply because they decided that this is "non-sustainable" In my oppinion there should be a another way to face the situation. Some criteria has to be found like level of microbial activity, level of nutrients, etc... Finally, BD is a proven system worldwide and if it does not work in a particular farm or particular region it should be seen simply as incompetence from those who are running those places and in our particular case the official Demeter people.
Jose > > On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 07:07 AM, Rural Center for Responsible > Living wrote: > > > Dear Bonnie, > > > > Rudolf Steiner made it very clear in the lectures to farmers that the > > preparations were meant to enhance a sound animal based compost > > fertility > > management program. > > Thanks Christy. Yes. This was my understanding. > > I am a little confused at the Brazilian practices described by > > Jose, since most of the preparations are to be added to compost, and to > > think of adding compost for 27 years and see no results? Were they even > > composting? > > That is why I was confused about him telling of folks using the preps > alone. It sounded like they might not even be making compost. > > Bonnie York >
