{"id":10980,"date":"2018-07-08T00:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2018-11-01T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:01:42","slug":"soil-and-health-and-why-i-am-now-enlightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/?p=10980","title":{"rendered":"“Soil and Health” and Why I Am Now Enlightened"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Soil and Health, A Study of Organic Agriculture\u201d was written in 1945, today the book is widely available for everyone to read.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Written by Sir Albert Howard in 1945, the book is now published by Oxford City Press and is available for \u00a316.<\/p>\n

It is a long studious read, but whatever your professional orientation, you know that you haven\u2019t wasted your time going through it.<\/p>\n

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Written in a very respectful, stylish language it tries to be objective with agricultural facts.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the book is to show the correlation between soil and health. For health to be healthy it needs to have its base in food grown in a healthy soil. To keep soil healthy a lot of knowledge, natural intuition and inspiration is needed, as well as a lot of common sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Soil is as a matter of fact, full of living organisms. It is essential to conceive of it as something pulsating with life, not as dead or inert mass. A handful of soil is teeming with life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book tells us too about the significance of humus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis accumulated reserve \u2013 humus \u2013 is the very beginning of vegetable life and therefore of animal life and of our own being\u201d<\/p>\n

We learn that compost is very important to keep humus healthy.<\/p>\n

There are various suggestions about how to make good compost and therefore how to manage urban waste effectively without doing harm to the environment. A great importance is paid to observing the law of return to the soil.<\/p>\n

After reading the book, in support of the author\u2019s battle with chemical farming, I conclude: to live we all need to eat. We all like to eat well and are happy to do so.<\/p>\n

We talk fairness and democracy, but it is not offered by the conventional farmer to the Soil.<\/p>\n

The living organisms in the soil fed chemically live deprived life. That apparently is for our benefit.<\/p>\n

Use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides described as \u201cbanditry\u201d by Sir Albert Howard is somehow an abuse of democracy and fairness towards life, towards the life of the Soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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