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Originally Posted by svalli
Farming methods in Finland used to be same as done by native Americans. People cut down the trees, burned them and mixed the ashes and charcoal to ground. They used to grow grain on that land two years and then couple of years of turnips and then move to an other area and let the trees grow back. This was done mainly on land, which was growing birches. That was the most common farming method here until the 19th century.
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It would be interesting to examine the land used in this fashion, just to see if it produced the same effect as the soil in the Amazonian region.