‘Organics’ have just started.
G’evening.
Its good, nay, necessary, to get out and about. It widens the vision and illuminates who and where we are.
During the past few years, a new day has dawned regarding food production and it’s about 10 am right now. We are facing multiple new challenges and associated opportunities as this century matures. No longer are our bodily nutrient requirements soley produced by regular applications of refined chemical compounds that produce bumper crops while slowly strangling soils.
In grandad’s day, plants obtained their nutrition solely from microbial activity present in healthy soils. Cow dung and other locally obtained organic materials were regularly applied to fields; crops were healthy, displayed natural resistance and yielded nutritional crops. Very few allergies in those days, I’ve been told.
We know that plants cannot dine directly on cow patties; these require to be ’worked over’ by millions of tiny soil microbes. Soil microbial activity not only converts the nutrients locked up in this package into plant assimilable forms but, in the process of doing so, greatly adds microbial metabolic compounds to the soil. Some ‘free’ plant food!
This practise was followed by the ‘new age’ concept of creating and using ‘plant foods’ rather than ‘soil foods’. Plant foods are refined forms of plant nutrition that are directly available to plants for assimilation. The results of solely feeding crops with such refined plant foods have now become clear.
The cycle is turning. With understanding and knowledge, we are regaining what we have lost. It’s going to be a sunny day.
Thanks for stopping by. SP
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