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Originally Posted by Tania
a very interesting quote from the article Regenerating Soils with Ramial Chipped Wood (LAVAL UNIVERSITY)
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Interesting post Tania. But that quote you gave is actually wrong. Don't worry though. It's not your fault, nor even the University. For years that is what the accepted science believed. Science is not static though. Previous assumptions get overturned by new science all the time. Turns out that in general the humus in the root zone of a grassland actually is the deep cycle, and the humus on the surface of forest soil is the short cycle.
This paper here overturns many previously thought ideas. That particular one being just a small part. Cenozoic Expansion of Grasslands and Climatic Cooling
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Scott
AKA The Redbaron
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture
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