[Terrapreta] Pottery Shards

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Lou,

Welcome to this list.  This sounds like a creative and cool idea ... "spore bombs".  We should ask is any soil scientists could make an analysis of the pottery and tell us anything about the microbial populations in them.

Regards,

Sean K. Barry
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lou gold<mailto:lou.gold at gmail.com> 
  To: Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:52 AM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Pottery Shards


  Hello,

  I'm new to Terra Preta and I'm not a soils scientist, 
  just a tree-hugger who thinks that TP might be the 
  solution that we've been looking for.

  I have been intrigued by the mystery of the pottery chards 
  found in the ADE soils. Yesterday, I discussed this with 
  some mushroom experts. Our conversation ended up 
  speculating that pottery shards might have been used 
  to spread applications of fungi. My friends said that 
  baked clay would be an excellent medium for incubating 
  mycelia. We speculated that the Amazonian Indians might 
  have laid out pottery shards in particularly fertile areas 
  in the forest where fungi were growing. Then they 
  might have used these "inoculated" pieces of clay to 
  "spore bomb" the fields in order to improve productivity.

  Has this possible scenario been discussed or investigated?

  Lou Gold 

  My blogs: 
  (English) http://lougold.blogspot.com/<http://lougold.blogspot.com/>
  (Portuguese) http://visionshare-pt.blogspot.com/<http://visionshare-pt.blogspot.com/>




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