“The successful gardener has always known you don’t need to master the science of the soil, which is…”
“The successful gardener has always known you don’t need to master the science of the soil, which is yet another hotbed of microbial fermentation, in order to nourish and nurture it. You just need to know what it likes to eat — basically, organic matter — and how, in a general way, to align your interests with the interests of the microbes and the plants.”
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“Some of My Best Friends Are Germs,” Michael Pollan, New York Times Magazine
I liked this article a lot. This observation Pollan makes near the end of it is kind of tangential to the main thrust of the article, but I liked it a lot, too.
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