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| Here is a link to a slide show used by a professor to teach organic gardening/farming principles that some may find interesting. |
Here is a link that might be useful: History of Organic Agriculture
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- Posted by lurkandkibitz (My Page) on Mon, Oct 22, 12 at 13:28
| Organic agriculture started before 7000 B.C. and probably wasn't done any other way until after 1828 and we are going to discover this from a slide show? |
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| Good Grief, lurk. There is only good to be gleaned from an educational resource like this. The goal of the presentation is clearly not to delve into civilization's earliest agricultural endeavors. I'm sure that we are all waiting for your interesting addition to the educational process. The history is important.
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| Perhaps Professor Gruver should have titled that "History of Modern Organic Agriculture". This slide show might provide some with a bit more information while others with closed minds will learn nothing. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Fri, Oct 26, 12 at 9:53
| I don't consider organic methods new. What happened in 1828? |
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- Posted by TheMasterGardener1 5B (My Page) on Fri, Oct 26, 12 at 11:07
| "What happened in 1828?" . Justus von Liebig was only 20 years old then. The father of the fertilizer industry. It was not until after 1850 when the first EFFECTIVE nitrogen fertilizer was invented by him. Read more: "Liebig believed that nitrogen must be supplied to plant roots in the form of ammonia. He applied his theories to raising crops on a small piece of land from 1845 to 1849, but because he was using an insoluble form of nitrogen that plants could not absorb, his efforts at first appeared ineffective. When he switched to a more soluble nitrogen compound, the health of the crops improved." http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Justus_von_Liebig#Agricultur e_and_plant_nutrition |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 9:28
| Exactly. Less than 200 years is less than the blink of an eye in the terms of human history. Fertilizer is a new idea. |
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- Posted by TheMasterGardener1 5B (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 10:41
| Yes very true. "History of Organic Agriculture" SO really we have been farming one way thousands of years, and another way less then 200. That is something to really think about. |
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| The first thought that comes to mind is that organic doesn't use harsher chemicals, but real organics also is the raising and release of higher levels of organic matter which in a synergy releases more soil minerals. Course, sometimes some of those mineral;s need to be added to bring things up to speed. Most of our soils had more minerals, but many of them are going down the toilet [literally]. |
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