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A 3000-year-old Practice May Revolutionize the Future of Farming : Planetsave
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May 13, 4:09am
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•http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/04/11...
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Who says archeology is useless?
An idea that's so useful and inexpensive that it will have to be ridiculed as "archaic", patented to be profitable to mega-corporations, and the independent practice banned worldwide to protect fossil fuel fertilizer markets.
From the page:
"The next revolution in agriculture and greenhouse gas reduction may be a 3000-year old farming practice of adding biomass charcoal to the soil. The practice was re-discovered by archeologists who were studying a site in the central-Amazon basin. Some 1500 years earlier the indigenous tribes had enriched the soil using charcoal from animal bone and tree bark. The soil remains today some of the richest and most fertile soil yet found."
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