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Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient

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262 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 16 Apr 25 21:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.29s | source
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bethekidyouwant ◴[20 Apr 25 14:13 UTC] No.43743891[source]▶
they paywall right before they say anything of note I imagine this is climbing to the top because people like the idea of healthy soil. My very small organic no till garden is lots of manual labour. when one person grows food for 1 million I laugh to see a picture of someone standing in a field with a shovel ‘fixing soil’
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righthand ◴[20 Apr 25 14:20 UTC] No.43743934[source]▶
People don’t stand in a field fixing soil one shovel at a time. They’re fixing soil with larger machinery and taking samples to research the soils fixes.
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1. bethekidyouwant ◴[20 Apr 25 14:27 UTC] No.43743990[source]▶
Sure, but in this article, they talk about traditional methods of soil management. There’s nothing about stopping erosion or implementing no till on an industrial scale.