The soil! The soil! When fed by plant remains and animal excrement, it became a vibrant, circulatory network that nourished the plants and animals which fed it. Rather than trying to replicate this system in the laboratory—an attempt doomed to fail—farmers should simply let the soil ecosystem create it naturally from humus, as Asian farmers had for millennia.
The soil! The soil! When fed by plant remains and animal excrement, it became a vibrant, circulatory network that nourished the plants and animals which fed it. Rather than trying to replicate this system in the laboratory—an attempt doomed to fail—farmers should simply let the soil ecosystem create it naturally from humus, as Asian farmers had for millennia.
