one start is: "without a gardener, there is no garden"
I look forward every other month to BIOSCIENCE magazine, Journal of AIBS,
Am Inst of Biol Sci. They often have an article that addresses your good
question, a favorite of mine as well. Also a local bumper sticker helps
the question:
"Let's Stop Treating Our Soil Like Dirt" - Land Stewardship Project
I asked essentially your question of Alan Kapuler, now research director of
Seeds of Change (Santa Fe, N.M.) and founder of DEEP DIVERSITY seed
catalog, {$6.00} P.O. Box 15700, Santa Fe, NM 87506-5700; I asked - Is
there a graphic taxonomic representation of the micro-organisms, fungus and
small creatures that live in soil? His reply was that the
microorganisms are largely not yet even identified; that the level of
ignorance was way huge, and this signified the low budget research priority
of soil and processes. The point being that any concern with soil, either
as grower, researcher or philosopher quickly places one on the forefront of
scientific and technical knowledge.
BIOCYLE and COMPOST are two journals you might want to look up from
JG Press, 419 State av, Emmaus, PA 18049 1-800-661-4905
On worms, one of the most amazing things I heard lately was that in the
most recently glaciated area (10,000 yrs ago) earthworms were scraped away,
and was colonized by Euro.invader worms with Euro. animal
husbandry-agriculture nightcrawlers, red worms whatever! Is this fantastic
or what? What about this?
So good luck on your lifelong answering of your question.
>>So I suppose today's lesson is that 'sustainability' is about erudite
>>discourse as well as nutrition and soil humus.
>
>I am especially interested in soil humus (and worm composting). What
>thoughts have you on the other living things involved in making soil
>sustainable?
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