Re: Re: more about soil: was re: Vegetables Without Vitamins - How to deal with low quality foods produced by local farms

[Guest guest]

heh, marty.

see how i said " let's look at the cycle: the soil (and the sun) give energy

to the plants...? hee!

and absolutely positively you've got to count those earthworms!! they are

critical to the system! without them, and the ants, and all the other bugs

in your dirt, and for that matter all the single-celled organisms, you'd

never get any nutrients into the dirt!

-katja

> so let's look at the

>cycle: the soil (and the sun) give energy to plants so that they

>grow. the plants give energy to the animals who eat them. if those

>animals are meat animals, then we also get energy from the meat.

>but now what happens if i don't put energy back into that soil?

>I agree about the nutrients, but not about the energy. The soil

>doesn't give energy to plants, just the raw materials. The energy

>comes from the sun.

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>(Unless you have some indirect system in mind, where you're

>including feeding the earthworms or other soil creatures, in which

>case maybe you do need energy in the form of organic material to

>feed those organisms).

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>Marty

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