[Terrapreta] "Keep rotting and rooting" Ah! get dirty first

[Larry Williams]

"Keep rotting and rooting"

Michael-------Thanks for the quote. Here is what I am considering.

Amazonian Terra Preta exists, it appears as a complex biological  
system which includes wood products from lightly charred wood to  
charcoal with some ash, for 6,000 years (?). This rich soil includes  
shards of pottery cookware which contain conical silica structures  
from freshwater sponges and it is suspected that the shards contained  
animal proteins from the cooking process. One archeologist reported  
in the 1980's of a village practicing a soil modification with buried  
charcoal (and charred wood?). It has also been reported that this  
soil technique predates pottery.

What if we start with the ingredients that the villagers started  
with? It was apparently a limited number of variables with a wild  
card from the shaman's input. These villagers may have received  
direction from their shamans to fine tune the biological process. We  
don't have that option. With the work of Geoff Lawton in Jordan as an  
example (see a short movie at the url below),  I believe, we can with  
the best knowledge available to us recreate the process as the  
Amazonian villagers did for the locale here we live.

This is not a suggestion to forgo the scientific method just to  
recognize that the specific to the general has as many limitations as  
generalizations, the general to the specific. Science does offer some  
very troubling views, for example in physics, have we seen a particle  
(a solid substance) yet or just the trail of an energy event? Is  
solid matter an illusion from some perspectives? As we explore  
different threads of thought, being outside of conventional view  
allows us to consider the conventional and the unconventional. Where  
did the Amazonian natives work from to achieve their goals? What were  
they thinking? Can this line of thought help us?

I suggest that Geoff Lawton's field work is very fruitful to his  
situation as are the experiences of Dr. A.D. Karve in India. Both are  
working in agricultural fields with their ideas. Let's be careful to  
not let our establish thoughts hid answers from us. Few people break  
through the barrier of established thought and this  is the  
challenge...for each of us. We do not appear to have the luxury of  
time when we consider global warming. All techniques of discovery are  
open as I see it-------Larry





Begin forwarded message:
Keep rotting and rooting
michael
"You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . . Most people  
don't know that"
FROM
http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf

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