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RE: A Day On The Farm - Prepping The Farm For Winter Is Easy When You Let Animals Do Most Of The Work
So many people have forgotten that animals are almost essential to good farming methods. Its great to see you post about that.
When you really think about how we farm, we have broken nutrient cycles that nature has created and turned an asset, excess nutrients, into a problem, nitrate pollution. By separating animals from the growing of crops, we created a multitude of problems that never existed before.
Animals are the herbivores that replace herbicides and fertilizers and each animal plays a different role in the whole ecosystem.
Humans have compartmentalized everything into commodities in the name of profit and created "waste" in the process. In nature, there is no waste. That's what we seem to have forgotten.
Completely agree. If we as humans remove parts of the cycle, it is our responsibility to fill those slots. I've read the work of Alan Savory and others, as well has running a series of more intrinsic gardening systems, no-till, etc, with animals as partners.