Natural Sequence Farming

well that is the difference we are all interested in looking at and strive towards. In Beyond the Brink a phrase along the lines of 'you cant do it better than nature' tells me I am very interested in how nature would repair itself (or more appropriately termed - restore a balance) and thus how we c...

I think that you have added the missing ingredient to my analysis ie. the influence of the water cycle in my comparison. I dare say it is a different imbalance between rural and urban examples but it is the water cycle that drives differing results. As you say the water allows the nutrients to be ta...

Thank you for your reply Shirley. I certainly take your points on board especially those regarding the affects of nitrogen and phosphorus and how they have different consequences. However I feel that I intended my query to head in a slightly different direction. This whole thought process started fo...

A continual message throughout the books is that the old landscape and new landscape have a disparity in fertility levels in the landscape. That is to say that the old landscape that was vegetated, sustained fertility and water cycles adequate for plant life to proliferate as opposed to the relative...