I’m Sure You’re Using A Natural Fertilizer…Right?

In: Reference Education 13Oct2009 by Tina HullThere’s no doubt about it. Natural fertilizer is the only way to go when it comes to fertilizing our lawns, gardens and crops. How did anyone ever conceive that applying chemicals to our plants, food and soil could help anything in the long run? If an alien were to visit our planet and saw us applying chemicals to the plants we eat, hed have to question our intelligence. Natural fertilizer is the only way to go if we want to keep our bodies and o

I’m Sure You’re Using A Natural Fertilizer…Right?

There's no doubt about it. Natural fertilizer is the only way to go when it comes to fertilizing our lawns, gardens and crops. How did anyone ever conceive that applying chemicals to our plants, food and soil could help anything in the long run? If an alien were to visit our planet and saw us applying chemicals to the plants we eat, hed have to question our intelligence. Natural fertilizer is the only way to go if we want to keep our bodies and our planet healthy.

Farmer Pushes Back at Michael Pollan

Entire read here , and it's interesting stuff. I don't even agree with everything he says, but it is still a very informative read: Norman Borlaug, founder of the green revolution, estimates that the amount of nitrogen available naturally would only support a worldwide population of 4 billion souls or so. He further remarks that we would need another 5 billion cows to produce enough manure to fertilize our present crops with natural fertilizer. That would play havoc with global warming. A

JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: Salsa Lovers Unite! (Eurweb)

*Hot house tomato growers have discovered that enriching their crops with high levels of Carbon Dioxide (C02) produce bigger sturdier plants and higher yields of fruit with increased levels of Calcium, which translates into more money in the grower’s pocket.