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Chris replied to Karen:
Great article, Karen. By contrast, the FreeTrade fanatics want to
tell us
to import food from other continents where people are starving already now. Meanwhile, something as useless and land-consuming as golf courses are popping up everywhere in Europe, taking away the last few pieces of fertile land and poisoning it with pesticides and benzole for the short English lawn. It is getting difficult to "Eat Local"... One thing you may like to note re: pesticides on golf courses, is that there has been a considerable amount of work done on the soil denizens by one pioneer in Oregon - Dr. Elaine Ingham of Soil Foodweb, Inc. ( http://soilfoodweb.com/ ). People are attempting to reach the owner/operators of these golf (non-productive lands) courses to greatly lower the inputs of both fertilizers and pesticides. This new "soil science" works and should be able to rejuvenate the dead soils that now underlie these sites of questionable activities. Unfortunately, every concerned Multi-national involved in the
petroleum/pesticide/fertilizer industry has been attempting to demonize her and
her nearly 20 years of research.
It can be used in every aspect of revitalizing dead soils for better food
production and has also been proven effective in countering many above ground
diseases of all plants. There may also be other applications.
This is just one small step in a very long march.
Darryl
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