Soil

Author:
Hugh Lovel
Category:
Soil

Time and time again I find the most limiting nutrient in pastures is boron. Boron provides sap pressure, and when it comes to trucking calcium, amino acids and all the other nutrients down the good old silicon highway one doesn't get far without sap pressure. If calcium and amino acids don't reach key cell division sites, growth is stunted and dwarfed.
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Category:
Soil

The most advanced experiment, involving communication with plants, has developed in a remote corner of Northern Scotland.
Three miles as the raven croaks, from the battlements of Duncan’s Castle at Forres, and just South of the heath…where 3 witches prophesied to Macbeth.
It is here that an ex-raf squadron leader, (turned hotelkeeper), decided to take up residence with his wife, and three young sons….in the derelect corner of a caravan park on Findhorn Bay.
It was a rubbish heap of old tin cans, broken bottles, bramble and grose bushes. Read more »

Author:
Hugh Lovel
Category:
Soil

It’s dire days when so many Australian farmers along the Murray/Darling have burned up the carbon in their soils and turned their paddocks into salt flats resembling some of the dry salt pans of Arizona. It is puzzling, having viewed Channel 9’s special (28/5/2006) on salinity in the Murray/Darling, that our government has been trying to get more fresh water to run straight off down the rivers by ripping out the willows, as well as attempting de-salination by mining salt from wells in the basin—at enormous expense I might add. Does anyone have any idea how much salt is down there? Read more »

Category:
Soil

Luckily our Indian heritage is slow to die. In the highland woods of Georgia, within sight of the Great Smoky Mountains, mystic haunt of the Cherokee, it lives on by the Tallulah River into whose turbulent waters the daughter of the chief once threw herself from a thousand-foot cliff to join her young white lover, sacrificed by her understandably segregationist father. A few miles upstream from the lover's leap, the grandaughter of another Tallulah Cherokee, Sarah Hieronymus, has been tapping cosmic waves. In a labaratory on the shores of Lakemont, not far from the Cherokee reservation, she is carrying on the work of her late husband, T. Galen Hieronymus, running the Advanced Sciences Research and Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization presently devoted to the spread of "Cosmiculture"-the channeling of cosmic energy into the ground for the benefit of plants. Read more »

Secrets of the Soil by Christopher Bird & Peter Tompkins
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