Maybe a nowhere theory

[Guest guest]

I finally got NAPD through ILL loan this week and have been reading it

every night. Great timing with no groups mail but I see now I'm back

on with an intriguing part. With the Gaelic people there's the smoked

oatstraw thatch from their burnt sod that WAP added varying amounts to oat

plants to show growth differences as they claimed. Steve mentioned in a

post this week that Wallace Black Elk told him of the traditional way of

jerky making with smoking before drying. WAP mentions smoking oxidizes the

fat and to my knowledge all drying in North American tribes was preceeded

by smoking. It was in the Atlantic Monthly article 1491 that field burning

was commonly done and its been a part of agriculture up until recent

outlawing. Blueberry farmers here in the east sometimes still do. Where I'm

leading is a few years back I saw this organic soil amendment that came out

of Canada that was nearly pure carbon. Isn't carbon a major component of

every living thing and wouldn't it be a prime factor in both our soil and

diet more now than then if the soil is depleted?

Wanita