the porous city

I'm going some volunteer research for One Acre Fund and this popped up. Interesting!

If I could tell you the number of times random people have mentioned rotating maize with legumes to fix nitrogen in the soil ... ugh.


last modified: 02:21:27 05-Oct-2010
in categories:Other/Agriculture, OneAcreFund

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Are you quite sure that legumes don't fix nitrogen? Your Grandfather was a very scientific farmer, and he taught me that alfalfa does fix nitrogen in the soil. To understand my confusion, I'd refer you here http://www.springerlink.com/content/b6695q9r26kv8670/ or here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation There's a National Geographic Channel show coming on at 9pm on November 20 that deals with the lost cities of the Amazon, and references terra preta, by the way.

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