Jun 5, 2024
Apropos of that post yesterday about soil depletion and soil--restoration? rebuilding? Just...building? While it is true that you can actually turn shitty clay into good soil in as little as a year, it does require the addition of quite a LOT of organic matter, which has to come from somewhere. To rebuild soil using green manures, grazing, nitrogen fixing plants, etc., is a more patient process, and a more skilled one too.
On the other hand, we actually have a TON of organic materials (yard waste, animal manures, plant waste like coconut husks and spent sugar cane) that are concentrated in places where they are a problem, so there's at least still room for projects that put them where they can be solutions.
